DOMINION OF CANADA. 



STATUTES. 



ACT OF MAY 22, 186S. 



(31 Vict., cap. CI.) 

 AN ACT Respecting fishing by foreign vessels. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 



1. The Governor may, from time to time, grant to any foreign 

 ship, vessel or boat, or to any ship, vessel or boat not navigated 

 according to the laws of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, at such 

 rate, and for such period not exceeding one year, as he may deem 

 expedient, a license to fish for or take, dry or cure any fish of any 

 kind whatever, in British waters, within three marine miles of any 

 of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbours whatever, of Canada, not 

 included within the limits specified and described in the first article 

 ol the convention between His late Majesty King George the Third 

 and the United States of America, made and signed at London on 

 the twentieth day of October, 1818. 



2. Any commissioned officer of Her Majesty's Navy serving on 

 board of any vessel of Her Majesty's Navy cruising and being in the 

 water- <rf ( !anada for purpose of affording protection to Her Majesty's 



■ I iji the fisheries, or any commissioned officer of Her 



Maje ty's Navy, fishery officer, or Stipendiary Magistrate on board 



of ;,ji . el Belonging to or in the service of the Government of 



la employed in the service of protecting the fisheries, or any 



officer of (he CJustoms of Canada, Sheriff, Magistrate or other person 



duly commissioned for that purpi se, m i-y go on board of any ship, 



ve sel or boat within any harbour in Canada or hovering (in British 



\iiliiji three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks 



harbours in Canada, and stay on board so long as she may remain 



v. ithin uch place <>r di stance. 



.; If uch hip, ve el or boa! be bound elsewhere, and shall con- 

 tinue within Mich harbour or so hovering for twenty -four hours after 

 the Mi i hall have been required to depart, any one of such officers 

 or | are above mentioned may bring such ship, vessel or 



bunt into pint and search her cargo, and may also examine the 



tci- ii' ill touching the cargo and voyage; and if the Master 



or pei "i! in command hall not irul\ answer the questions put to 

 liim in uch examination, he -hall forfeit four hundred dollars; and 

 if 1 1 « • } i -hip. ve el or boal be foreign, or not navigated according to 

 the laws or the I rated Kingdom or of Canada ami hi ve I. ecu found 

 fishing, or preparing to fish, or to have I "'en fi l die: (in British waters) 



within three marine miles of an} of the coasts, hays, creek- or bar 



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