AUSTEALIA. 467 



(2) If any sucli officer, headman, or person shall neglect to have any 

 chank, beche-de-mer, coral, shell, boat, canoe, raft, ves- 

 sel, dredge, or apparatus seized by him conveyed to officex^neoiectln'^'to 

 such custom house within a jeasonable time, he shall convey seizure tolus- 

 be guilty of au offence and liable to a fine of one Imn- rraonaWeS'" '^ 

 dred rupees. 



11. (1) Every prosecution under this ordinance may be instituted in 

 the police court of the division in which the offence was 



committed or where the offender is found, and such juSsluctio^n^**"'^^^*' 

 court may by its order declare and adjudge any chank, 

 beche-de-mer, coral, shell, boat, canoe, raft, vessel, dredge, or apparatus 

 seized and detained under this Ordinance to be forfeited, and such for- 

 feiture may be in addition to any other punishment hereinbefore pre- 

 scribed, anything in the Criminal Procedure Code to the contrary not- 

 withstanding. 



(2) All forfeitures may be sold or otherwise disposed of in such 

 manner as the police court may direct. 



12. It shall be lawful forthe court imposing a fine under thisOrdinance 

 to award to the informer any share not exceeding a 

 moiety of so much of the fine as is actually recov- 

 ered and realised. 



Informer's share. 



SCUEDULE A. 



Kankosanturai Jaffna 



Kayts Pesiilai 



Schedule B. 



Eastward of a straight line drawn from a point six miles westward of Talaimannar 

 to a point six miles westward from the shore two miles south of Talaivilla. 



Passed in Council the Nineteenth day of November, One thousand 

 Eight hundred and Ninety. 



H. L. Crawford, 

 Acting Clerk to the Council. 



Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the Twenty-fifth day of 

 November, One thousand Eight hundred and Ninety. 



E. Noel Walker, 



Colonial Secretary. 



AUSTRALIA. 



AN ACT to regulate the Pearl Sliell and Beche-de-mer Fisheries in Australasian 

 Waters adjacent to the Colony of Queensland. 



[Reserved, 20th January, 1888; Queen's assent proclaimed 19th July, 1888.] 



WHEREAS by certain Acts of the Parliament of the Colony of 

 Queensland provision has been made for regulating the 

 Pearl Sliell and Beche-de-mer Fisheries in the terri- Thl^Qu^en^siand 

 torial waters of that Colony; And whereas, by reason Pearisheiianasedie- 



,. ,, 1 • 1 •,• f r> j_i T 1 1 de-mer Fisheries (Ex- 



ot the geographical position ot many of the Islands tra territorial). Act 

 forming a i^ortion of that Colony, vessels employed in '^'^ ^Preamoie 

 such Fisheries are, in the prosecution of their business, 

 sometimes within and sometimes bevond the territorial jurisdiction of 

 Queensland: And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the 



