402 DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



sea, shall, as soon as possible, be delivered to the 

 Receiver of Wreck if the article saved be taken into the 

 United Kingdom, and to the Commissary of Marine if 

 the article saved be taken into France. 



" The Receiver of Wreck or the Commissary of Marine, 

 as the case may be, shall restore the articles saved to 

 tlie owners thereof, or to their representatives. 



" These functionaries shall fix the amount which the 

 owners shall pay to the salvors." 



Penalties of detention, fine, or imprisonment are pro- 

 vided for any infraction of these regulations, according 

 to the nature and extent of tlie offence committed. 



As we have previously mentioned, the Inspectors of 

 Irish Fisheries have power to make byelaws for the 

 regulation of all the fisheries in their own waters, but 

 Section 67 of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, also em- 

 powers them " from time to time to lay before Her 

 Majesty in Council byelaws for the purpose of restrict- 

 ing or regulating the dredging for oysters on any 

 oyster bed or banks situate within the distance of 

 twenty miles measuied from a straight line drawn from 

 the eastern point of Lamhay Island to Carnsore Point 

 on the coast of Ireland, outside of the exclusive fishery 

 limits of the British Islands, and all such byelaws shall 

 apply equally to all boats and persons on whom they 

 may be binding." 



Such byelaws may be approved, revoked^ or altered 

 by Order in Council. 



"Every such Order shall be binding on all B7ntish 

 sea-fishing boats, and on any other sea-fishing boats 

 in that behalf specified in the Order, and on the crews 

 of such boats." 



The Convention between England and France, em- 

 bodied in the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, and now brought 



