This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1844, which regulated the sale and granting of public lands which had priorly stood unused in the province.
This act lays out procedures to follow in order to prevent the illicit registration of ships arriving in United Canada from other British territories. Clauses include ways to assure the ships are actually owned by the people claiming ownership.
This act allows for the sale and lease of land reserved to Native peoples, with the proceeds from such sales to go towards the benefit of the said people, and creates new regulations to prevent encrosions upon their remaining land.
An act that amends the Act of Incorporation of the Kingston Marine Railway Company, allowing the company to purchase property, and build various watercraft.
An act to grant the Bishop of Montreal certain rights and privileges regarding the transfer of land in the former province of Lower Canada that would otherwise be in the power of the Bishop of Quebec, until such time as a successor to the Bishop of Quebec could be appointed.
An act to clarify a previous act entitled An Act to confirm and regulate certain sales of lands, for taxes, in the Ottawa District that elaborates on the procedures and tax measures for land sales.
An act that allows former Boundary Line Commissioners to recover costs still due on judgments that were outstanding when the original legislation empowering them expired by petitioning the district courts in the district in which they served as Boundary Line Commissioner.
An act to repeal certain sections of the Ordinance "An Ordinance to prescribe and regulate the Registering of Tides to Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Real or Immoveable Estates, and of charges and incumbrances on the same; and for the alteration and improvement of the Laic in relation to the Alienation and Hypothecation of Real Estates, and the Rights and Interest acquired therein," and establish Public Offices to record deeds in all districts in Lower Canada.