APPENDIX 
CAP. LXII. 
AN ACT EESPECTIXG FISHEEIES AND FISHING. 
Protection to Fislieries. 
1. The Governor in Council may grant special fishing leases and 
licenses on lands belonging to the Crown, for any term not exceeding 
nine years, and may make all and every such regulation or regu- 
lations as may be found necessary or expedient for the better man- 
agement and regulation of the Fisheries of the Province. — 22 V. c. 
86, s. 4. 
2. The Governor may, as occasion shall require, appoint two 
Superintendents of Fisheries, one for Upper and one for Lower 
Canada. Four Overseers may be appointed by the Commissioners 
of Crown Lands, in such places, and in such divisions of territory, as 
may be considered necessary. — Hid. s. 5. 
5. The Governor in Council may cause to be set apart any river 
or other water for the natural or artificial propagation of salmon, 
trout or other fish. — IMcl. s, 8. 
6. The Governor in Council may grant permission to fish in the 
rivers within the King's Fosts.— Ibid. s. 9. 
7. Whoever throws overboard ballast in any river, harbor or 
roadstead, wtiere fishing is carried on, or the remains of off'al of fish, 
in any such river, or within three miles of the coast of the mainland, 
or of any island, or on any fishing-bank, shall incur a fine not exceed- 
ing eighty dollars, and the master or owner of such vessel or boat, 
from which sucli ballast or offal offish shall have been thrown, shall 
be held liable for every such offence : Provided always that it shall 
be lawful for any person to bury such off'al of fish on the mainland 
or any island at a distance of not less than an acre from the beach 
thereof. — Ibid. s. 11. 
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