102 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



II. And for the preserving the said harbours from all annoyances; 

 be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after 

 the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred, now next 

 coming, no ballast, prest stones, or any thing else hurtful to or annoy- 

 ing any of the harbours there, shall be thrown out of any ship or 

 otherwise, by any person or persons whatsoever, to the prejudice of 

 any of the said harbors, but that all such ballast and other things shall 

 be carried on shore; and be laid where they may do no annoyance. 



III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no 

 person or persons whatsoever shall (at his departure out of the said 

 country, or at any other time) destroy, deface, or do any detriment 

 to any such stage or cook room, or to the stakes, spikes, nails, or any 

 other thing whatsoever thereto belonging, as he or they shall fall into 

 at his or their coming into the said country, but that he or they shall 

 (during his or their stay there) content him and themselves with such 

 stage or stages only as are needful for him or them, and shall also (at 

 his or their departure thence) leave all such his or their stage or stages, 

 without doing or causing to be done any wilful damage to any of 

 them; and that for the repairing of such stage or stages as he or they 

 shall so take, during his or their abode there, the same shall be done 

 with timber fetcht out of the woods there, and not by the ruining, 

 breaking down, demolishing, prejudicing, or any wise injuring the 

 stage or stages of any other person or persons whatsoever. 



Iv. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 (according to the ancient custom there used) every such fishing ship 

 from England, Wales, or Berwick, or such fishermen as shall, from and 

 after the said twenty-fifth day of March, first enter any harbour or 

 creek in Newfoundland, in behalf of his ship, shall be admiral of the 

 said harbour or creek during that fishing season, and for that time shall 

 reserve to himself only so much beech or stakes, or both, as are need- 

 ful for the number of such boats as he shall there use, with an overplus 

 only for the use of one boat more than he needs, as a privilege for his 

 first coming thither; and that the master of every of such second 

 fishing ship, as shall enter any such harbour or creek, shall be vice 

 admiral of such harbour or creek during that fishing season ; and that 

 the master of every such fishing ship next coming, as shall enter any 

 such harbour or creek, shall be rear admiral of such harbour or 

 creek during that fiehing season, and that the master of every fishing 

 ship there, shall content himself with such beech or stakes, as he shall 

 have necessary use for, without keeping or detaining any more beech 

 or stakes, to the prejudice of any such other ship or vessel as shall 

 arrive there; and that such person or persons as are possessed of 

 several places in several harbours or creeks there, shall make his or 

 their election of such place as he or they shall choose to abide in ; and 

 shall, also, within eight and forty hours after any after-comer or 

 after-comers into such place or places shall demand such his or their 

 resolution touching such his or their election (if the weather will so 

 soon permit, or so soon after as the weather will permit) give or send 

 his or their resolution to such after-comer or after-comers, touching 

 such his or their election of such place as he or they shall so choose to 

 abide in for the fishing season, to the end that such after-comer or 

 after-comers may likewise choose his or their place or places of his or 

 their abode there; and in case any difference shall arise touching the 



