128 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



XVII. All actions for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures 

 im o 'I by this Act must be commenced within three years after 

 the offence committed. 



Will. No appeal shall be prosecuted from any decree Or sen- 

 tence of any Court in this orovince, touching any penalty or forfeiture 

 hereby im >>se<l, unless the inhibition be a iied for, and decreed, 

 within twelve months from the decree or sentence being pronounced. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ACT OF APRIL 15, 1843. 



(6 Vict., cap. 14.) 



AN ACT Relating to the Fisheries, and for the Prevention of Illicit Trade in Prince 

 Edward Island, 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 t he twentieth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand 

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

 Parliament of Great 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 ship, 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 harbours 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: and whereas the United States did, by the said 

 Convention, renounce for ever any liberty enjoyed or claimed by the 

 inhabitants thereof to take, dry, or cure fish on or wdthin three marine 

 miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbours of His Britannic 

 Majesty's dominions in America, not included within the above- 

 mentioned limits: provided however that the American fishermen 

 should be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of 

 shelter, and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of 

 obtaining water, and for no other purposes whatever, but under such 

 restrictions as might be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, 

 or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing 

 the privileges thereby reserved to them: and whereas no rules or 

 regulations have been made for such purpose, and the interests of 

 the inhabitants of this Island are materially impaired: and whereas 

 the said act does not designate the persons who are to make such 

 seizure as aforesaid, and it frequently happens that persons 

 found within the distances of the coasts aforesaid, infringing the 

 Articles of the Convention aforesaid, and the enactments of the 

 statute aforesaid, on being taken possession of, profess to have come 

 within said limits for the purpose of shelter and repairing damages 

 therein, or to purchase w r ood or obtain water, by which the law is 

 evaded, and the vessels and cargoes escape confiscation, although 

 the cargoes may be evidently intended to be smuggled into this 

 Island, and the fishery carried on contrary to the said Convention 

 and statute: Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Council, and Assembly, that from and after the passing of this Act, 

 it shall be lawful for the officers of Her Majesty's Customs, the 

 officers of Impost and Excise, the Sheriffs and Magistrates throughout 



