03/15/1862
The United States Congress passed and President Lincoln signed an appropriation of $3000 setting up a Joint Commission on the Preservation of Atlantic Fisheries aimed at preserving and allocating Atlantic fishing stocks. A commissioner was to be named to meet with commissioners appointed from Britain and France to discuss ways of reaching these goals. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
"Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws," The National Almanac and Annual Record for the year 1863 (Philadelphia, PA: George W. Childs, 1863), 249.