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 an amendment to an act first passed in 1844, which regulated the sale and granting of public lands which had priorly stood unused in the province.
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.
This act regulates the repair and construction of roads, including the appointing of a board of commissioners for road, procedures for disputing the placement of roads, and the appointment of surveyors to settle disputes and to inspect roads.
This act repeals a prior census act passed in 1836 and replaces it with a new census act, defining what kind of information is to be taken by census-takers and how it is to be taken.
This continues an act passed in 1843 which enumerates the tariffs to be charged on various items being imported into Newfoundland in order to generate a revenue for the province.