This act replaces the office of surveyor general with the commissioner of crown lands. The commissioner will undertake all the functions of the former surveyor general.
This act continues an act first passed in 1839 which consolidated several past acts concerning the building and maintenance of lighthouses in the province.
Because of the lack of general publication of an act passed in the prior year regarding the rights of the clergy to vote and run for election led to various clergymen having voted against the law, this act secures these clergymen against legal penalties as they were not priorly informed of said act before the last election.
This act amends an act first passed in 1843, which awarded bounties of two hundred pounds to the three vessels who brought in the largest amount of whale blubber or oil.
This act seeks to encourage the fishery of cod on the grand banks by paying a bounty of 30 pounds to the vessel which should bring in the largest quantity.
This act lays out penalties for people who disrupt construction on public works. The act defines the types of disruptions punishable as well as the penalties.
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 is the continuation of an amendment first passed in 1841, with some slight amendments. The original act set standards by which inspectors are to grade fish set to be exported out of the province.
This act regulates 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.