This Ordinance amends and makes permanent the 1839 Ordinance, "An Ordinance to authorize the Commissioners for making the Canal from St. John’s to Chambly, to borrow a certain sum of money to complete the said Canal," and provides for further sums to be borrowed towards putting it into effect.
This is the repeal of an act passed in 1839, which appropriated a revenue to create a transportation service between Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
This Ordinance provides a further sum not exceeding thirty thousand pounds towards completing the Chambly Canal in fulfillment of the 1833 Act, "An Act to grant an Aid to His Majesty, for the purpose of making a Navigable Canal, from or near the Town of Saint John to the Basin of Chambly, upon the River Sorel or Richelieu." The processes by which these funds are to be accounted for are outlined.
This act grants two thousand pounds for the maintenance of Kettle Creek Harbour, and makes it possible to name commissioners and civil engineers to manage the project.
This Ordinance provides several sums, listed, to support or provide for various projects and organisations, such as for completing public roads, the Chambly Canal, and bridges, and for the encouragement of agriculture. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined.
This act allows the Cobourg Harbour Company to increase their capital stocks to ten thousand pounds in order to gain them more funds with which to complete their project, and allows them more time for completion of the building of the habour at Cobourg.
This act incorporates the Company of the Bayfield Harbour, authorising them to survey and acquire land in order to build a harbour and all associated structures on the waterfront at Bayfield. The company is also authorised to collect tolls on incoming vessels once the harbour is completed.