136 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



20. The several provisions of this Act shall apply to any foreign 

 ship, vessel or boat in or upon the Inland Waters of Canada; and 

 the provisions hereinbefore contained in respect to any proceedings 



in a court oi* Vice-Admiralty shall, in the case of any foreign ship, 

 vessel or boat, in or upon the Inland Waters of Canada, apply to, 

 and any penalty or forfeiture in respect thereof shall bo prosecuted 

 and recovered in, one of the Superior Courts of the Province within 

 which such cause of prosecution may arise. 



■_M. Neither the ninety-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes 

 i)( Nova Scotia, (third series,) "Of the Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries," 

 nor the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Nova Scotia, passed 

 in the twenty-ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter thirty- 

 live, amending the same, nor the Act of the Legi slature of the Prov- 

 ince of New Brunswick passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's 

 reign, chapter sixty-nine, intituled: "An Act relating to the Coast 

 Fisheries, and for the prevention of Illicit Trade," shall apply to any 

 case to which this Act applies; and so much of the said chapter and 

 of each of the said Acts as makes provision for cases provided for 

 by this Act, is hereby declared to be inapplicable to such cases. 



ACT OF MAY 12, 1870. 



(33 Vict., cap. 15.) 

 ATT A< 'T To amend the Act respecting Fishing by Foreign Vessels. 



Whereas it is expedient for the more effectual protection of the 

 in-shore fisheries of Canada against intrusion by foreigners, to 

 amend the Act intituled "An Act respecting Fishing by Foreign 

 Vessels," passed in the Thirty-first year of Her Majesty's Reign; 

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

 Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 



1. The Third Section of the above cited Act, shall be, and is hereby 

 repealed, and the following section is enacted in its stead: — 



3. Any one of such officers or persons as are above-mentioned, may bring any ship, 

 vessel, or boat, being within any harbor in Canada, or hovering (in British wate 

 within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors in Canada, 

 into port and search her cargo, and may also examine the Master upon oath touching 

 the cargo and voyage; and if the .Master, or person in command, shall not truly answer 

 the questions put to him in such examination, he shall forfeit four hundred dollars; 

 and if such ship, vessel or boat be foreign, or not navigated according to the laws of 

 the United Kingdom, or of Canada, and have been found fishing, or preparing to fish, 

 or to have been fishing (in British waters) within three marine miles of any of the 

 coasts, bays, creeks or harbors of Canada, not included within the above-mentioned 

 limits, without a license or after the expiration of the period named in the last license 

 granted to such ship, vessel, or boat, under the first section of this Act, such ship, 

 vessel, or boat, and the tackle, rigging, furniture, stores, and cargo thereof shall be 

 forieited. 



2. This Act shall be construed as one with the said Act "respecting 

 Fishing by Foreign Vessels." 



