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 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.
An act that repeals the previous act "An Act to regulate the Inspection and Measurement of Timber, Masts, Spars, Deals, Staves, and, other articles of a like nature, intended for shipment and exportation from this Province, and for other purposes relative to the same" and to institute new regulations for the inspection and measurement of timber, masts, etc. for export from the provinces.
An act to ban the fishing of "lunge," "Maskinongé” and “Salmon Trout” from the lakes, rivers, and streams of the counties of the Eastern Townships from August to December by any means except that of a single hook.
An act to regulate the hunting of deer, moose, elk, etc. in the province of Canada between the months of February and August including punishments and regulations regarding game birds.
This act appropriates six hundred pounds annually from the colonial treasury for the next three years, to be used in the encouragement of the whale fishery. This money is to be split into three separate bounties of two hundred pounds, which will be awarded to the vessels who bring in the largest amount of whale blubber or oil.
This act continues for four years an act originally passed in 1839, which placed a bounty of five pounds on wolf pelts in an attempt to control the wolf population.