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.