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son exercising (ho Office of Governor in any such Parts of His Majesty's 

 Dominions in America, under or in pursuance of any such Order in 

 Council as aforesaid. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons, upon 

 Requisition made by the Governor of Newfoundland, or the Person 

 exercising the Office of Governor, or by any Governor or Person exer- 

 cising the OHice of Governor, in any other Parts of His Majesty's 

 Dominions in America as aforesaid, or by any Officer or Officers acting 

 under such Governor or Person exercising the Office of Governor, in 

 the Execution of any Orders or Instructions from His Majesty in 

 Council, shall refuse to depart from such Bays or Harbours; or if any 

 Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to conform to any Regula- 

 tions or Directions which shall be made or given for the Execution of 

 any of the Purposes of this Act; every such Person, so refusing or 

 otherwise offending against this Act shall forfeit the Sum of Two hun- 

 dred Pounds, to be recovered in the Superior Court of Judicature of 

 the Island of Newfoundland, or in the Superior Court of Judicature of 

 the Colony or Settlement within or near to which such Offence shall be 

 committed, or by Bill, Plaint or Information in any of His Majesty's 

 Courts of Record at Westminster; One Moiety of such Penalty to 

 belong to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety 

 to such Person or Persons as shall sue or prosecute for the same: Pro- 

 vided always, that any such Suit or Prosecution, if the same be com- 

 mitted in Newfoundland, or in any other Colony or Settlement, shall 

 be commenced within Three Calendar Months; and, if commenced in 

 any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster, within Twelve Calendar 

 Months from the time of the Commission of such Offence. 



ORDERS IN COUNCIL. 



ORDER IN COUNCIL OF JUNE 19, 1819. 



At the Court at Carlton House, the 19th June, 1819. 



Present: His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council. 



Whereas an Act was passed in the present session of Parliament, 

 entitled "An Act to enable His Majesty to make regulations with 

 respect to the taking and curing fish in certain parts of the coasts of 

 Newfoundland, Labrador, and His Majesty's other possessions in 

 North America, according to a Convention made between His Maj- 

 esty and the United States of America," wherein it is enacted that 

 "whereas aConvention between His Majesty and the United States of 

 America was made and signed at London on the 20th day of October, 

 1818, and by the first article of the said Convention it is agreed that the 

 inhabitants of the said United States shall have for ever, in common 

 with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of 

 every kind on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which 

 extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the western and 

 northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the 

 Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on 

 the coasts, bays, harbours and creeks from Mount Joly, on the south- 

 ern coasts of ^Labrador to and through the Straits of Belleisle, and 



