No. 15

I have the honor of transmitting herewith for your information a
copy of the Minutes of the Council of this Colony, from the
11th to the 16th day of April last, both days inclusive.

2. The Act for the preservation of Game is peculiar in its
character, inasmuch as it is merely intended for the protection
of Game, during the close season, and to prevent its wholesale
destruction by a class of persons who make a trade of hunting
and a livelihood by selling the game at this place.

3. It would be impossible perhaps to prevent altogether the
killing of game animals in the close season, but the present act
will have a highly conservative effect, by entirely putting a
stop to its being sold publicly in the market and by imposing a
fine upon all persons buying or selling the same.

4. The following Bills which have passed the Council, and are
now in favorable progress through the House of Assembly are
fowarded at present, in order to have the benefit of your
remarks on them.

5. The first is an Act for the registering of Conveyances,
affecting land or real estate, which is of manifest utility and
greatly required in this Colony.

6. The second Act is for the purpose of legalizing marriages
solemnized by Dissenting Clergymen, of which there was before a
doubt.

7. The other Bill is to enable religious bodies to hold land
and other real estate and to transmit the same in their
corporate capacity.

8. Those measures have been framed with great care and after
mature consideration and will I trust meet with the approval of
Her Majesty's Government.