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of the court where such action shall be brought, at any time before 

 or after the issue joined, to pay money into court as in other actions. 



XV. And be it further enacted, That in any such action, if the 

 judge or court before whom such action shall be tried, shall certify 

 upon the record that the defendant or defendants in such action acted 

 upon probable cause, then the plaintiff in such action shall not be 

 entitled to more than two pence damages, nor to any costs of suit. 



XVI. And be it further enacted, That all actions or suits for the 

 recovery of any of the penalties or forfeitures imposed by this act, 

 may be commenced or prosecuted at any time within three years after 

 the offence committed, by reason whereof such penalty or forfeiture 

 shall be incurred, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwith- 

 standing. 



XVII. And be it further enacted, That no appeal shall be prosecuted 

 from any decree or sentence of any of his Majesty's courts in this 

 province, touching any penalty of forfeiture imposed by this act, 

 unless the inhibition shall be applied for and decreed within twelve 

 months from the time when such decree or sentence was pronounced. 



XVIII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not go into 

 force or be of any effect until his Majesty's assent shall be signified 

 thereto, and an order made by his Majesty, in council, that the 

 clauses and provisions of this act shall be the rules, regulations and 

 restrictions respecting the fisheries on the coasts, bays, creeks or 

 harbors of the province of Nova Scotia. 



NOVA SCOTIA REVISED STATUTES, 1851, CHAPTER 94. 

 OF THE COAST FISHERIES. 



1. Officers of the col. mini revenue, sheriffs, magistrates, and any 

 other person duly commissioned for that purpose, may go on board 

 any vessel or boat within any harbor in the province, or hovering 

 within three marine miles of any of the coasts or harbors thereof , and 



ii board so long as she may remain within such place or distance. 



2. If such ressel or boat be hound elsewhere and shall continue 

 within such harbor, or so hovering for twenty-four hours after the 

 master shall have been required to depart, any one of the offic< 

 above mentioned may bring such vessel or boat into port and search 

 her cargo, and also examine the master upon oath touching the cargo 

 and voyage, and if the master or person in command shall not truly 

 answer the que tions demanded of him in such examination he Bhall 

 forfeit one hundred pounds; and if there be any prohibited goods on 

 board, then Buch ve I or boat, and the cargo thereof, shall be 

 forfeited. 



If the \e el or boal shall be foreign and not mi\ [gated accordi 

 to the laws of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall have been found 

 fishing or preparing to fish or to have been h hing within three marine 

 miles of such c or harbors, such ve I or boat, and the caj 



all he forfeited. 



I. All i bs liable to forfeiture may be seized and 



ny of such officers or pe commi Ioned, and every 



person opposing i hem, or anj one aiding such opposil ion, shall forfeit 

 two hundred pounds. 



