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2. Section 5 of the said chapter is hereby amended by the addition 

 of the following words: "Or into such other custody and keeping: 

 as the Governor in Council or Court of Vice Admiralty shall order.' 



3. In i of seizure under the said Act, the Governor in Council 

 may, b} order, direct a stay of proceedings; and in eases of con- 

 demnation, may relieve from the penalty in whole or in part, and on 

 such terms as may he deemed right. 



NEW BRUNSWICK ACT OF MAY 3, 1853. 



(16 Vict., cap. 69.) 



AX ACT Relating to the Coast Fisheries, and for the Prevention of Illicit Trade. 



(Assented to October 24, 1853.) 



Be it enacted, &c, as follows: 



I. Officers of the Provincial Treasury, and any other person duly 

 appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council for that purpose, 

 may go on board any vessel or boat within any harbour in this prov- 

 ince, or hovering within three marine miles of any of the coasts, or 

 any harbours thereof, and stay on board so long as she may remain 

 within such place or distance. 



II. If such vessel or boat be bound elsewhere, and shall continue 

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

 master shall have been required to depart, any one of the officers or 

 persons above mentioned may bring such vessel or boat into port, 

 and search her cargo, and also examine the master upon oath; and 

 if the master or person in command shall not truly answer the ques- 

 tions demanded of him in such examination, he shall forfeit one 

 hundred pounds; and if there be any prohibited goods on board, then 

 such vessel or boat, and the cargo thereof, shall be forfeited. 



III. If the vessel or boat shalfbe foreign, and not navigated accord- 

 ing to the laws of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall b« found fishing, 

 or to havt i fishing, or preparing to fish, within three marine miles 

 of such coasts or harbours, such vessel or boat, and the cargo, shall 

 be forfeited. 



IV. All goods, vessels, and boats liable to forfeiture may be seized 

 and secured by any of such officers or persons so appointed; and 

 every person opposing them, or any one aiding such opposition, shall 

 forfeit two hundred pounds. 



V. Goods, vessels, and boats seized as liable to forfeiture under this 

 Act, shall be forthwith delivered into the custody of the officers of 

 the Provincial Revenue next to the place where seized, to be secured 

 and kept as other vessels, boats and goods seized are directed to be 

 secured and kept by law. 



VI. All goods, vessels, and boats condemned as forfeited under this 

 Act shall, by direction of the principal officer of the Provincial Reve- 

 nue where the seizure shall have been secured, be sold at public auc- 

 tion, and the produce of such sale shall be applied as follows: the 

 amount chargeable for the custody of the property seized shall first 

 be deducted, and paid over for that service; one-half of the remainder 

 shall be paid to the officer or person seizing the same, without deduc- 

 tion; and the other half, after first deducting therefrom all costs 

 in . shall be paid into the Treasury of this Province; but the 



