Legislation by Source Document: Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1851. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1851.
This act alters the rules surronding the granting of patents allowing those residing in New Brunswick for less than a year to apply for them, and only allowing them to have force as long as foreign ones do.
This act prohibits fishing at certain times and certain methods of fishing, and establishes a system of fines and imprisonment for those who violate them, as well as regulations regarding licences and fishing stations.