972 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



I. It shall be lawful for any Officer or Petty Officer 

 belonging to Her Majesty's Navy or Revenue Service, or 

 such Officers and Men of the Coast-guard Stations as may 

 be thereunto authorized by the Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Customs, or such persons as may be appointed 

 under the provisions of the said Act, by the Lords of the 

 Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for 

 Trade and Foreign Plantations, when they go on board 

 any British vessel employed in fishing, to examine whether 

 the Regulations of the said Act have been complied with, 

 to seize and throw overboard or destroy any Oysters found 

 on board such vessel, at any time from the First day of May 

 to the Thirty- first day of August in any year, as well as to 

 seize and dispose of, in manner provided by the " Customs 

 Consolidation Act, 1853," all Dredges and other Imple- 

 ments for catching Oysters found on board such vessel ; 

 and it shall also be lawful for such Officers, Petty Officers, 

 and Men, and such persons as aforesaid respectively, to 

 seize and dispose of in like manner all Dredges and other 

 Implements for catching Oysters found sunk in or floating 

 upon the seas, at any such time as aforesaid. 



II. No Oysters taken in the seas between the United 

 Kingdom and France shall be imported into or landed in 

 any part of the United Kingdom, at any time between the 

 First day of May and the Thirty-first day of August in any 

 year, and any Oysters imported in or landed between such 

 days from any vessel employed in fishing in the said seas 

 shall be deemed to be Oysters taken and imported contrary 

 to the provisions oi the said Articles and of this Act, unless 

 the contrary be proved ; and it shall be lawful for any 

 Officer of the Customs, or any Person who may be appointed 

 under the Provisions of the said Act by the Lords of the 

 said Committee of Council, to seize and destroy, or other- 



