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3. All inhabitants of this Kingdom are forbidden, under the same 

 penalty, to participate, even indirectly, in any herring-fishery 

 under foreign colours. 



4. Any person who shall undertake either directly or indirectly to 

 entice inhabitants of this Kingdom to exercise herring-fishery 

 in a foreign country, shall forfeit a penalty of 2000 florins, or be 

 imprisoned for one year. 



5- Any fisherman who shall have either exercised herring-fishery 

 abroad, or engaged there to exercise such fishery, shall be 

 imprisoned for six months. 



6. No foreign herring, whether fresh, cured, salted or smoked, shall 

 be imported into this Kingdom, on pain of forfeiture of the 

 herring, and a fine of 500 florins for every barrel of salted 

 pickle-herring, or 5 florins per hundred of herrings fresh or 

 smoked. 



GENERAL SUPERINTENDENCE AND POLICE OF THE HERRING ' 



FISHERY. 



7- The external police, or general superintendence of the herring- 

 fishery, shall be governed by uniform rules all over the Kingdom, 

 established by law and by Royal Decrees based upon the law. 



8. The internal police, or detailed regulations for these fisheries, 

 shall be established for each sea-bound Province, by the 

 Provincial States ; but the said regulations shall not be contrary 

 to the general rules. 



9. The internal police of the herring fisheries includes : the details 

 of equipment, the rules relative to applying for, and obtaining, 

 permission to fish for herring, the mode of preparing, sorting 

 and salting herring, and the necessary precautions relative to 

 vessels going for cod-fish and having some herring nets on 

 board. 



10. In every sea-province where it shall be found useful, the 

 Provincial States shall, subject to Our approval, appoint a 

 College to have the direction of all things concerning the 

 herring fishery. 



ii. In provinces where herring-fishery has not sufficient import- 

 ance to require a separate College, it shall be lawful for the 

 Provincial States to confide the care of that fishery to such 

 Boards as shall have the direction of other fisheries in such 

 provinces. 



