An amendment to an act first passed in 1816, making it illegal for wandering traders and pedlars to operate without a license, and specifies the penalties faced by those who should practice such trade without being first licensed.
Under this Act, the House of Assembly is allowed to appoint three commissioners for the purpose of examining witnesses instead of bringing them to the bar in all trials of controverted Elections or returns of Members to serve in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. The duties of these Commissioners are described.
This Act continues two acts relating to trade duties on certain articles, which are to remain in force until 18 March 1819, and amends that drawbacks are not to be given on articles exported to other provinces.
This act empowers the local government of Cornwall to establish a town market, and specifies how the taxes and fees from the said market are to be distributed.
An act to confirm and ratify the agreements between commissioners appointed on behalf of the Lower Canada and Upper Canada. The act outlines these articles pertaining to duties on trade between the provinces.
This Act continues a former Act imposing duties on goods imported from the United States, as well as an act that continued it, and introduces several duties on livestock imported from the States.