MARITIME PROVINCES. 



STATUTES. 



NOVA SCOTIA ACT OF MARCH 12, 1836. 



(G Wm. IV, chap. 8.) 



AN ACT Relating to the fisheries, and for the prevention of illicit trade in the prov- 

 ince of Nova Scotia and the coasts and harbors thereof. 



Whereas, by the convention made between his late Majesty, King 

 George the Third, and the United States of America, signed at London 

 on the twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand 



lit hundred and eighteen, and the statute made and passed in the 

 at of (heat Britain in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of his 

 late Majesty, King George the Third, all foreign ships, vessels or boats, 

 or any ships vessel or boat, other than such as shall be navigated 

 according to the laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, found fishing, or to have been fishing, or preparing to fish 

 within certain distances of any coasts, bays, creeks or harbors what- 

 ever, in any part of his Majesty's dominions in America, not included 

 within the limits specified in the first article of the said convention, 

 are liable to seizure: 



Whereas the United States did, by the said Convention, renounce 

 forever any liberty enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof 

 to dry or cure Bsh on or within three marine miles of any of 



the co ists, or harbors of his Britannic Majesty's domin- 



i not included within the above mentioned limits; 

 Provided, however, Thai the American fishermen should be admitted 

 i" enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter, and of 

 n pairing damages therein, of purchasing wood and of obtaining water, 

 and for no other purpose whatever, but under such restrictions as 

 might be w y to prevenl their taking diving or curing fish 



therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges 

 t 1 ereby reserved to them: and whereas do rules or regulations have 



been made for such purpose, and the interests of the inhabit ants of 



tin ince are materially impaired: and whereas the said act docs 



not designat i to make such seizure as aforesaid, 



and it frequently happens that persons found within the distance 

 of the co nd, infringing the articles of the convention 



aforesaid, and the enactments oi the statute aforesaid, on being taken 

 I" i"ii of, profess to have come within said limits for the purpose 

 of Bhelter, and repairing damages therein, or to purchase wood and 

 obtain water, by which the law is evaded, and the vessels and cargoes 

 ■ am, all hough 1 1 may be evident ly intended 



to led into this province, and the fishery carried on contrary 



i" tid coi "i! and -i -it ute. 



1. Be ii therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council 

 and Assembly, Thai from and after the pa i of this act, it shall 



119 



