This act standardizes the registration and filling out of what would once have been parish records, such as births, marriages, and deaths, to be recorded under government supervision.
This act provides instructions for conducting a census of the province, along with specific questions to be asked by census takers. Penalties are also defined for those who refuse to provide the requested information to those taking the census.
This is an amendment to a 1849 act, which changed the distribution of provincial statues, stating that only public acts will be distributed to the public in order to save the expense of printing and distributing all legislative acts. The new act repeals the 1849 acts, and changes the distribution again to include private and local acts.
This act legislates for the periodical taking of the census every ten years, starting in 1852, then again following in 1861, and every ten years after that.
This act details how property deeds are to be registered when mortgages or other debts against the property is involved, so that the purchaser is protected against the debt.
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1834, which calls for the creation of provincial election rolls, specifying who is eligible to be an elector, who is responsible for collecting the names and maintaining the lists, and how to register individuals who object to being registered as voters, among other measures.