This act authorizes the province's chief administrative officer to appoint flour inspectors "to establish the credit of those articles in foreign markets."
This act appoints the commissioners named to oversee the relief of the poor within the town of Halifax. Their responsibilities are specified by the act, along with the various types of employment which can be undertaken by those residing in the poor-houses of Halifax.
This act divides the town of Halifax into wards for the purposes of repairing and maintaining roads, and allows for the appointment of commissioners to determine the work that needs to be done for each ward, the budget which will be required, and sets out penalties for those who impede the work of the commissioners.
This act follows an 1795 act to build beacons and harbour slips in Passamaquoddy Bay, but resulted in large debts. This current act allows for the province to extract money to pay off these debts from the Charlotte County treasurer, and creates a new system of duties to support the maintainence of the completed beacons or those yet to be built.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, and which had been amended several times prior. This particular amendment extends the terms of the act to the town of Liverpool, which was not included in the amendment of 1793, which saw the inclusion of towns beyond Halifax, the original jurisdiction of the 1762 act.
This act establishes duties and fines on imported items to raise provincial revenue, and charges agents with the authority to collect such duties and fines and prosecute frauds.
This act authorises the extension of one of the military barracks in Halifax, as proposed to the Lieutenant-Governor by the Commanding Engineer, Captain William Fenwick.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1765, which made it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county jail.
This act authorises the building of a bridge over the Jacques Cartier river. It appoints commissioners to oversee the construction of the bridge, including the surveying of the banks to determine the best location for the building project, and specifies toll rates that will be charged once the bridge is completed in order to offset the construction costs.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1799, this act executes the sale of glebe land in Granville by reverend Archibald Paine Inglis, and approves the appointment of church wardens elected by the congregation to manage further church affairs.
This act changes the time and place of the court of common pleas and general sessions of the peace for Annapolis county. The place is changed to the town of Digby, where it will be held four times a year, on the days stated.