Much livestock in New brunswick was free ranging and roamed widely at this time. So that their owners could be more easily recover this act stipulates that any who found unfamiliar livestock on their enclosed land much register descriptions of such animals with town or parish clerks. If no owners claimed them in six months they would be required to sell them a public auction.
This act prevents plantiffs suing a Justice of the Peace for his rulings against them to collect more than two pence in damages, unless it can be proved that the Justice of the Peace acted with malicious intent against them.
This act grants all those who own property that borders a river or stream the right to harvest fish from the parts of the rivers or streams that borders their property. Such rights had previously only granted to those with property adjoing the eastern side of Saint John harbour.