This act grants the colonial treasurer the permission to spend the amount of twenty thousand pounds raised from duties charged on imported goods, in order to start projects to improve the colony with various projects.
This act transfers the responsibility of fee collection from the High Sheriff to the colonial Treasurer. It also makes a sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds available annually to be paid to the high sheriff and his deputies as a salary.
This act secures the governor of the province against legal repercussions for funds he advanced from the colonial treasury in order to pay certain provincial expenses.
This act continues an act first passed in 1833, which imposed quarantine measures on ships coming into the province to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
This act continues an act first passed in 1839, which consolidates several past acts concerning the building and maintenance of lighthouses in the province, with some amendments.
This act appropriates six hundred pounds annually from the colonial treasury for the next three years, to be used in the encouragement of the whale fishery. This money is to be split into three separate bounties of two hundred pounds, which will be awarded to the vessels who bring in the largest amount of whale blubber or oil.
This is the continuation of an act first passed in 1833, which regulated navigation into and out of the port of Saint John's, and set tariffs on each vessel by type.