This act amends an 1801 act which originally only applied to Halifax, extending the reach of the original act to also apply to the town of Windsor (excepting a few named clauses). The 1801 act has been amended to extend to other towns within Nova Scotia in a similar fashion prior to this amendment, namely in 1821 when the act was extended to Digby and Yarmouth.
This act allows the provincial government to receive from the deputy province treasurer at St. Andrews the sums of money collected under expired navigation legislation.
This act places various rates of duty on a series of alcoholic beverages landing at the port of Saint John for the purpose of raising a provincial revenue.
This Act allows the Justices of the Peace in the Midland District to borrow the necessary funds to build a new courthouse and gaol in Kingston, and provides guidelines for the repayment of the loan.
This Act decrees that the survey line determined by Lewis Grant, Esquire, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, be considered the official boundary line "between the Second and Third Concessions of the Township of Osnabruck," thereby settling any disputes over said boundary.
An Act to apply sums to religious communities for the support of Foundlings, and towards the relief of Sick and Infirm persons in the districts of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. It is also made lawful for Commissioners to bind out foundlings as apprentices.
This Act repeals as "ineffectual and insufficient" the section of the earlier legislation cited in this Act's title, relating to swine. It also stipulates that magistrates in any town with a police force or which may in future establish a police force have the authority to create regulations around the "running at large" of swine in their respective jurisdictions.