To encourage literacy this act lays aside funds to erect and maintain grammer schools in every county and the city of Saint John, and establishes a system for managing them.
This Act establishes a toll on an existing road from Montreal to La Chine, which is used for mercantile transport to and from Upper Canada, and outlines how trustees responsible for continued maintenance of the road should be appointed. The toll placed on the road is to be used to improve and repair the road. The Act outlines how the toll should be applied.
An Act to limit accidents at the rapids on the St. Lawrence river above Montreal caused by going over the rapids with heavy loads. The Act sets guidelines for the appointment of an Inspector and Measurers of scows and rafts of timber/lumber who are responsible to determine and enforce "safe" weights based on water conditions. Fines to be given to those who fail to comply are described.
This Act extends the powers of commissioners and the treasurer appointed under an Act passed in 1801, which had been set to expire. The Act sets a new expiry for these positions. The original Act set out provisions for removing the walls and fortifications around Montreal, and outlined how the lands then occupied by the walls and fortifications should be sold.
This act establishes a system for clearing winter roads in York and Sunbury Counties, and charges local officials with overseeing the work and hiring locals to do it.
An Act to apply unappropriated funds to the completion of a bridge across the Jacques Cartier River and to collect a toll for a period of one year. The road leading from Lorette towards the bridge is also to be improved under this Act.
This act keeps the duties of an 1801 act to pay for building lighthouses in Passamaquoddy Bay in place until 1806, as the exisiting lighthouses havwe yet to be fully paid for.
This act replaces existing militia legislation, establishing new regulations for the command, organization, recruitment, mobilization, fines, and training days of the New Brunswick militia, both provincially and locally.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1792, which limited the traffic allowed on the road from Windsor to Hammond Plain. The amendment places further regulations on the width of felloes which can be used on the road, and imposes penalties for those who should damage the road by carrying loads which are overweight or by using wheels deemed too narrow.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1794, which placed a duty on certain goods imported into the province in order to fund schools in the district of Halifax.
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.