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14. Every such action shall be brought within three months after 

 the cause thereof has arisen. 



15. If on any information or suit brought to trial under this chap- 

 ter on account of any seizure, judgment shall be given for the claim- 

 ant, and the judge or court shall certify on the record that there was 

 probable cause of seizure, the claimant shall not recover costs, nor 

 shall the person who made the seizure be liable to any indictment or 

 suit on account thereof. And if any suit or prosecution be brought 

 against any person on account of such seizure and judgment shall 

 be given against him and the judge or court shall certify that there 

 was probable cause for the seizure, then the plaintiff besides the thing 

 seized or its value shall not recover more than two pence damages 

 nor any costs of suit, nor shall the defendant be fined more than one 

 shilling. 



16. The seizing officer may within one month after notice of action 

 received tender amends to the party complaining or his attorney or 

 agent, and plead such tender. 



17. All actions for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures imposed 

 by this chapter must be commenced within three years after the 

 offence committed. 



18. No appeal shall be prosecuted from any decree or sentence of 

 any court in this province, touching any penalty or forfeiture imposed 

 hereby, unless the inhibition be applied for and decreed within twelve 

 months from the decree or sentence being pronounced. 



19. All coasting vessels under sixty tons burthen, owned in this 

 province, and engaged in the coasting trade thereof, shall be furnished 

 with a narrow piece of plank or iron aflixed to the bottom of the keel 

 and level therewith, extending aft at least six inches beyond the 

 aperture between the stern post and rudder, and well secured on the 

 keel. But this section shall not extend to vessels in which the main 

 or false keel extends six inches beyond the aperture between the 

 stern post and rudder. 



20. Any owner or master of a coasting vessel not so furnished or 

 built, running foul of any net set off the harbors, hays and rivers of 

 the coast, shall, upon due proof thereof, forfeit five pounds, to be 

 recovered by the party injured to his own use as a private debt, leav- 

 ing to the party grieved, nevertheless, his rights at common Law for 

 any further damage. 



21. In this chapter "vessels" shall include ships, and "harbors" 

 I hall include pO] I 9, ha\s and creeks. 



NOVA SCOTIA ACT OF MAY 7, 18G6. 



(39 Vin ,,,,,, 88.) 



AN' A.I i i ■ imend I haptei 94 ol the Etevi ed Statute . ' Of the Coa I and Deep Sea 



l 'i li.'i i< 



Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: 



l. Section i or chapter 94 of the Revised Statutes is hereby 



amended as -follows: And ball be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 



upon conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 



two \ eai 9." 



