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rights, property, premises or privileges granted by the lease 

 and also to sue for and recover any damages sustained by him 

 as such lessee. 48 V. c. 9, s. 21. 



21. Every lessee to whom a fishery lease is granted, shall Liability of 

 be answerable for damage done to the lands in the lease damage to 

 described, and the timber growing thereon, or on adjoining lands, lands included 

 either by himself or his agents, or persons \mder his control, '° ^^^^' 

 either from waste or from want of sufficient precautions in 

 lio-htino-, watchinof over or extinguishing fires ; and it shall be 

 incumbent on every lessee, in case ot damage caused by 

 fire, to prove that all such precautions have been taken. 48 V 

 c. 9, s. 22. 



33. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Waters may 

 Council, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner, to *p"s*^g7*^e° 

 reserve from lease for one or more years, for purposes of im- reserved from 

 provement, any waters, the exclusive right of fishing in which ^*^^*^®- 

 is within the meaning of section 2 of this Act. 48 V. c. 9; 

 s. 23. 



33. The Commissioner may appropriate and license or lease Lease of 

 certain waters in which certain Indians shall be allowed to ^u^^^t"^- 



, . . which Indians 



catch fish lor their own use in and at whatever manner and allowed to 

 time, and subject to whatever terms and conditions are specified ^'*^- 

 in the license or lease. 48 V. c. 9, s. 24. 



34:. The Commissioner may authorize to be set apart, and Provisions as 

 to be leased, any waters for the natural or artificial prona2;a- *° ^^!'*^"?„ 



„'•' -ipiii '^ . ^. '^ apart waters 



tion Oi fish, and any person who wiliuUy destroys or injures for natural or 



any place so set apart or used for the propairation of fish, or fishes artificial 



therein without written permission from a Fishery Overseer, fish. 



or from the lessee or licensee thereof, or uses therein a 



fishing light or other like implement for fishing, during 



the period tor which the waters are so set apart, shall 



for every offence incur and pay a fine not exceeding $100, with 



costs of prosecution, and in default of immediate payment of 



such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned in the common gaol 



of the county wherein tlie offence was committed, for a period 



not exceeding three months. 48 V. c. 9, s. 25. 



35. Nothing contained in this Act shall preclude the grant- Commis- 

 ing by the Commissioner of written permission to obtain fish sioners may 

 and fish spawn, for purposes of stocking or artificial breeding, lon\o obufn 

 or for scientific purposes, subject always to any regulation ^^^^' ?*^°-' ^^'^ 

 or restriction made or prescribed by or under anv lawful au- purposes, 

 thority in that behalf. 48 V. c. 9, s. 26. 



36. If any person without permission of the lessee or his Penalty for 

 representative, fishes, or employs or induces another pe^'son ^5^i\",f ^ •+ 

 to engage or assist in fishing within the limits included in a fish- of fishing lease 

 ery lease, or removes or carries away, or employs or induces without per- 



*' >! ' r J mission of 



lessee. 



