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provided for, the letters and numbers of sails shall be painted 

 on each side of the cloth forming the substance of the sail, and 

 not upon any cloth or other thing sewn or otherwise attached to 

 it ; and shall be placed on each side of the centre cloth or 

 cloths of the mainsail, clear of and immediately above the close 

 reef, and so as to be at all times conspicuous whether the sail be 

 reefed or not. 



12. All boats of whatever class shall have tlieir names, and 

 those of the ports to which they belong, painted in white oil 

 colour on a black ground on the outside of the sterns, in letters 

 which shall be at least 3 inches in height and ^ an inch in breadth. 



13. In the case of any vessel or boat only occasionally engaged 

 in tirfhing for purposes of sale, and not usually so employed, the 

 letters and numbers prescribed by these Regulations may be 

 temporarily affixed, by pieces of canvas or board attached to 

 the mainsail and bows, but of the same dimensions as those 

 specified in the eighth article of these Eegulations. 



14. The letters, numbers, and names placed on boats and on 

 their sails shall not be effaced, covered, or concealed in any 

 manner whatsoever, 



15. All the buoys, barrels, and principal floats of each net, 

 and all other implements of fishery, shall be marked with the 

 same letters and numbers as the boats to which they belong, so 

 as to be easily distinguished. The owners may further dis- 

 tinguish them by any private marks they think proper. Pro- 

 vided that this Regulation shall not apply in the case of boats 

 employed, 



(1) in the Scotch herring fishery; 



(2) in the drift net and seyn fisheries in Cornwall ; 



(3) in such other drift net and seyn fisheries (if any) as the 



Board of Trade may direct. 

 In the above-mentioned cases it will be held sufficient that the 

 nets and buoys be numbered, so as to identify their true owners ; 

 but in all cases of doubt it will devolve upon the masters of 

 buoys and nets to satisfy Sea Fishery Officers (as defined by 

 the eighth section of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868) that the said 

 buoys and nets properly form jDart of the trains of the boat with 

 which they may be found, or that they belong to the fishermen 

 of other boats temporarily fishing in it. 



