This Act outlines how Commissioners should be appointed to ascertain a place and estimate the costs of a Customs House at the port of Montreal. Their duties and allowable expenses are outlined.
This Act provides for the enlargement of the Lachine Canal, as described, and specifies that the land owned by the Corporation of the City of Montreal that may be used to enlarge the canal further cannot be constructed upon for a period as outlined.
This act enables specific jails throughout the province to expand, both by allowing them more land, and by enacting more provisions by which jail administrators can collect the debts owed to them to fund building projects - particularly the debts owed to them by those jailed. This includes the seizure of goods and estates of said debtor.
This Act amends the 1832 Act, “An Act to authorize the erection of Court Houses and Gaols in the Counties of this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” relating to the location where the Court House and Gaol should be built, how its location will be determined, and how the costs associated will be paid.
This Act makes provisions for agricultural societies to be organised in each county in the province and outlines how these societies should function, including the the roles to be filled in each. This Act is to remain in force until 1840.
This Act extends the provisions of the 1830 Act, "An Act to establish Registry Offices in the Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi,” to the counties of Deux-Montagnes] and Acadie.
This act limits the amount of gunpowder to be kept by any one person, ship, or in any warehouse in the town of Harbour Grace to 25 pounds, for public safety reasons.
This Act makes provision to provide poor farmers in the province with seeds, as required following the near total crop failure of the last year. This Act outlines several sums to be distributed in certain parishes in the province for this purpose.