This act incorporates the Welland Canal Company, empowering them to sell and trade their stocks, explore and survey the area between the Welland river and Lake Ontario in order to construct a canal between the two, and to use any brooks, streams, or any other watercourses in order to supply the canal with water. It also permits the company various levels of use over both private and public land.
An Act to apply a sum not exceeding twenty thousand pounds towards the completion of the Lachine canal, as outlined in an Act passed in 1821, "An Act for making a Navigable Canal, from the neighbourhood of Montreal to the Parish of Lachine, and to appropriate a certain sum of money for that purpose, and to repeal a certain Act therein-mentioned," which project was continued by the 1823 Act "An Act to appropriate a certain sum of money therein-mentioned, towards continuing and completing the Lachine Canal." The tolls and duties to be collected to repay these funds and the rates of interest to be applied to the loan are described.
This act provides for the building of a canal between Burlington Bay and Lake Ontario, to be paid for by the payment of a toll by those who navigate said canal.
This act continues an act passed in 1822 which made plans to survey the potential routes for a canal system running from Lake Erie to the eastern border of Upper Canada. It grants a further sum of one thousand pounds, and calls for a survey to be done in Presqu'ile Harbour and at the head of the bay of Quinte in order to connect the two by a navigable canal.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1822 which establishes a duty to be collected at all harbours adjacent to the gut of Canso to support the Cranberry Island lighthouse.
This act allows for the incorporation of a company which will have as its goal the construction of a canal on the Shubenacadie River to allow for easier navigation to and from Halifax Harbour and Minas Basin. The members of the corporation are not herein named or specified, rather the act sets out how the corporation is to be regulated and established, and makes provisions for its establishment once a sufficient number of potential members have been found.
A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1812 which imposes a duty on ships entering Liverpool Harbour in order to support a lighthouse on Coffin's Island.
This act amends a 1788 act, expanding the duties paid by vessles to support the lighthouse at Patridge Island to all ships, not just those based in the port of Saint John.
This act amends an 1799 act regulating the Northumberland County fishery, creating new fines for those who erect illegal fishing structures in the Miramichi River and Bay.
A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1822 which establishes a duty to be collected at all harbours adjacent to the gut of Canso to support the Cranberry Island lighthouse.
This act allows for the appointment of commissioners to assure the maintenance and care of diked marshlands (former Acadian aboiteaux), and specifies provisions for cases where a part of a dike or marshland requiring maintenance is located on private property. This act replaces all past acts regarding the maintenance of diked marshes.