This act calls for a survey of the South Petite Nation river in order to ascertain if said river would make navigation between the Ottawa river and the Saint Lawrence River possible.
This act provides a sum of money to conduct a survey on the river Thames between Chatham and London to best determine how to improve navigation between the two locations.
This act amends the act which incorporates the Welland Canal company to allow the issuing and sale of more company stocks as a way for the company to repay various loans made to the company now that the canal project is complete. It also calls for an examination and survey of the completed canal by engineers who are in no way associated with the company.
This is an amendment of an act passed in 1836 which authorised the payment of twenty thousand pounds towards the last of a sum accrued from various war claims by Great Britain during the war of 1812.