MEXICAN FISHERY LBGISUTION 



I, That the fees nentioned in Article 3 have been paid to the proper fiscal offices. 



II. Ihat the tonnage agrees with that declared. 



Article 9, Bie "Via la Pesca" warrant shall be good for one trip only, which trip must 

 not exceed seventy days and, with the exception of the waters surrounding the Coronado Islands, 

 Lower California, shall confer the right to capture, in the waters indicated in Article 1, all 

 the migratory species not subject to closed seasons and not requiring a special permit or 

 authorization. Only vessels of three net tons capacity or less may fish in the national waters 

 immediately surrounding the Coronado Islands, Lower California, in accordance with this Law and 

 provided that no nets of any kind are used. 



Article 10. All "Via la Pesca" warrants shall be returned at the end of the voyage to 

 the authorized personnel of the Department of Forestry and of Hunting and Fishing in the port 

 of unloading, with a detailed statement as to the species obtained amd the amount of each 

 species, as well as the places where they were captured, the statement to be made on special 

 forms the wording of which whall be supplied by the aforesaid Department. 



Failure to con?)ly with the provisions of the foregoing paragraph establishes the legal 

 presua^stion which will admit no proof to the contrary, that other trips were effected under 

 the permit granted "Via la Pesca", each trip to be calculated at a rate of two days or 

 fraction thereof following the one on which the corresponding statement should have been 

 presented, and the sum resulting as due from the violator when such calculation has been 

 made, shall immediately be deducted from the amount of the guarantee which was posted to 

 cover the permit, without this preventing the exacting of the corresponding responsibilities 

 when this is applicable. 



The personnel of the Department shall in any case make the corresponding inspection and 

 shall return to the fishing authority which issued it, the "Via la Pesca" warrants collected 

 and cancelled, together with the capture and unloading declarations. 



Article 11. For fiscal purposes, the personnel authorized by the Biinistry of Finance 

 and Public Credit shall be entnisted both in national territory and in foreign ports of un- 

 loading with the collection of the tax and the supervision of the fishing activities. In 

 the case tnat in the belief of such personnel, no document of violation has been prepared 

 by any of -the employees attached to the respective office of the Department, the personnel 

 in question must do this in detail, forwarding such notice to the Delegation of the Depart- 

 nent which has jurisdiction in the place vfhere the violation was discovered. 



Article 12. The species taken under the "Via la Pesca" warrant shall not be subject to 

 payment of export taxes, but there will be subject to the corresponding penalties according to 

 the laws, the act of taking unauthorized species, or cari-ying any kind of fisn in the bait 

 tanks or outside the warehouses, refrigerators and other places which are listed in the 

 registration papers as storage places for dead fish and not fish taken provisionally as is 

 fish for bait. In case of violation of this provision by the holder of the permit, a sum 

 corresponding to twice the amount specified for the quantity trauisported legally shall be 

 paid to cover the quantity transported illegallyj in addition, there shall be i mposed the 

 fine or fines specified in the General Law of Fishing in effect until such time as the 

 Federal Eixecutive formulates the regulations to which Article 3 of this Law refers. 



-For the purposes of this Article, it shall also be considered illegal to transport any 

 species filleted or semi-prepared in a manner yihxch would diminish the volume taxable in 

 accordance witn the respective tariff. The Federal Executive shall decide in the regulation 

 which he issues to nake trds Law effective, what species of fish or shellfish may be trans- 

 ported without heads or iirtiioh are cleaned inside, and the additional rates payable in such 

 case. 



Article 13. It is optional for the masters or captains of fishing vessels irtio have 

 fulfilled the requirements of this Law, to stop or not at the Mexican ports on the route of 

 their authorized voyage; but in case they do, they are obliged to satisfy whatever require- 



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