This Act establishes the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, sets aside monies for the construction and maintenance of school houses, and lays out instructions for the appointment of school masters.
This Act sets out provisions for removing the walls and fortifications around Montreal, and outlines how the lands then occupied by the walls and fortifications will be sold.
An Act to allow and admit the Decisory Oath in commercial matters and in civil matters in agreement with the laws and customs of Lower Canada's courts.
This act revives and amends an act first passed in 1792, which outlines the processes by which civil actions or suits should be tried in the county of Halifax and the rotation of justices to serve. This Act is to remain in force for one year.
This act imposes penalties for anyone who should try to claim goods they find on shore without being able to prove they are not from a shipwreck, or they do not own them. The act includes provisions for issuing warrants to search for concealed goods which may have been seized from the shore after a shipwreck in order to return them to their rightful owners.
An Act to implement a licensing system for billiard tables enacted in response to an increase in the number of billiard tables throughout the province. All revenue from the license fees are to be collected by the Secretary of the Province, his deputy, or agent and put in the King's treasury.