This act facilitates the formation of a private company which can take over the building of infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges. The act sets out various regulations this company will have to adhere to, including rules surrounding financing.
This act provides for a provincial postage service, similar to other similar postage services which have been implemented in other British North American colonies.
This act facilitates the granting of government assistance to railway companies in the province in order to assist them in the completion of railways and make transportation easier, so long as a number of specified conditions are met.
This act obliges railway companies to carry government personnel and equipment, such as police forces, militia, and postmasters, under conditions to be negotiated in the house of assembly.
This act suspends an act first passed in 1845, which regulated the repair and construction of roads, including the appointing of a board of commissioners for road, procedures for disputing the placement of roads, and the appointment of surveyors to settle disputes and to inspect roads.