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shall be used within the course of any river or stream frequented 
chiefly by salmon and sea-trout, at a greater distance from the mouth 
thereof than the usual mark of tidal floods, or inside of such other 
actual limit as may be assigned in the field to each estuary holding 
by the Superintendent of Fisheries for Lower Canada, or by the sti- 
pendiary magistrate in charge of the government vessel for the 
protection of fisheries. 
C. — All nets, or other law^ful appliances for the capture of salmon 
and sea-trout, shall be placed within the estuary fishings at distances 
of not less than 200 yards apart, the interval so designated to mean 
along either side of the stream, and such measurement to leave the 
space clear from any net on one side to another net upon the oppo- 
site shore, without separate intermediate nets, or other device, being 
set anywhere therein. 
D. — The Superintendent of Fisheries for Lower Canada, or the 
stipendiary magistrate in command of the government vessel for the 
protection of fisheries, may prescribe, either by written or published 
instruction, or on sight, the open space between nets to be set in 
bays, and elsewhere along the coast. 
E. — At the outside of the chamber and in tlie pound of every set 
or stake-net for the capture of salmon and sea-trout, there shall be 
maintained a flap or "door" at least ten inches square, which must 
be left open, aflbrding free egress and passage to salmon and trout, 
from sundoAvn on Saturdays until sunrise on Mondays. 
F. — All other persons are forbidden to take fish of any kind, and 
in any manner, within limits covered by leases or licenses from the 
Crown, except by special permission of the lessees or licentiates. 
G. — The fishing for, taking, and killing of any salmon or sea-trout 
by aid of torch-light or other artificial light, and by means of spears, 
harpoon (negog), jigger-hooks, or grapnel, is hereby absolutely 
forbidden. 
H. — Indians may, for their own 'bona fide use and consumption, 
fish for, catch or kill salmon and trout by such means as are next 
above prohibited during the months of May, June and July, but only 
upon waters not then leased, licensed or reserved by the Crown ; 
provided always that each and every Indian thus exempted shall be 
at all times forbidden to sell, barter or give away any salmon and 
trout so captured or killed in the manner hereinbefore described. 
/. — The receipt, gift, purchase, sale and possession by any person 
or persons other than Indians of any salmon or trout which may 
have been speared or taken as aforesaid, shall be punishable accord- 
ing to law ; and every fish so found or had in violation of this rule, 
shal'i become forfeited and disposable as the law directs. 
J. — No fishing shall be allowed in any Avater set apart by the 
Crown for purposes of natural or artificial breeding of salmon and 
trout, except under express sanction from the Superintendent of 
Fisheries for Lower Canada. 
