This act allows for the appointment of commissioners to oversee the rebuilding of the public market in Halifax. The act details the responsibilities and powers of the commissioners, including the management of stall rental by public auction. The act also includes clauses prohibiting vendors from conspiring to set prices, and details the penalties for those who should contravene the act.
An amendment of an act first passed in 1778, which prevented the sale of cord wood for any price over fifteen shillings per cord. The amendment loosens the restrictions around the sale of cordwood in the town of Halifax.
This act establishes the Law Society of Upper Canada to "secure to the province and the profession a learned and honourable body ... and to support and maintain the constitution of the said province."
This is a continuation of two acts, one passed in 1793 and relating to a lighthouse on Sambro Island, and the other passed in 1787 regarding a lighthouse at the mouth of the harbour in Shelburne.
This act amends a 1796 act to make special provisions for Sunbury County parishes to allow for easier and more convenient highway construction and maintainence.
This act changes the times at which the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace for the county of Sydney are held, to the first Tuesday of March and the first Tuesday of October.
This act makes it lawful for the chief administrator of Upper Canada to issue commissions throughout the province for granting title to persons possessed of lands for which no grants have yet been issued.
This act allows for proprietors to petition for erecting swing gates or water fences on the roads or shores near their property and sets up the terms under which their petitions could be granted.
This act provides for the replacement of trustees of the Dartmouth town plat, which was granted to Thomas Cochran, Timothy Folger, and Samuel Starbuck, in trust, for the common use of the town in 1788.
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 goal. Although the title of this act states that the original act being amendment was passed in 6 Geo. III, it was in fact passed in 5 Geo. III.