This is an amendment to an act passed in the second session of 1846 which placed various regulations on the rebuilding of St John's after part of the town was destroyed in the fire. The regulations in this act include measures for building fire breaks, sewage, and various other improvements to the city.
This act transfers management of church lands to new church trustees due to the death of several trustees, confirming that the lands in question can be used for the benefit of the church.
An act to facilitate punishments for Warehousemen who fraudulently distribute false receipts and receive advances on merchandise, including fines and jail time.
An act confirming that townships erected in the former Upper Canada that were not declared in the manner set out in acts passed by the government of United Canada are legal as if they had been erected according to the laws passed in United Canada
An act that allows future acts to let certain legal terms often repeated in acts to be interpreted as included in the bills without necessarily writing out all the provisions that are usually put in every act.