142 LEQISLATIV] U'TS. I'KOl'LAMATIONS, ETC., 



to believe that any fish taken in violation of this Act, or anything 

 used in violation thereof, is concealed. R. S., ■ 95, s. 17. 



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60. Gurry grounds may be designated ot defined by any lishery 

 officer. U. S., c. 95, b. 1 7. 



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62. Property seized by any fishery officer, stipendiary magistrate 

 or naval officer, acting as aforesaid, may be removed for disposal to 

 the nearest or most convenient porl where any revenue officer or 

 other public officer empowered to deal with the matter resides. 

 Et. S., c. 95, s. 17. 



Whenever it is impracticable for any fishery officer, stipendiary 

 magistrate ov naval officer, acting in such capacity, to cause any 

 prisoner to be conveyed to, and committed to the nearest common 

 gaol, he may detain him on hoard of the vessel, or transfer him to 

 another vessel for conveyance to and delivery at the most convenient 

 place, and with all convenient despatch, where he can he duly com- 

 mitted into the custody of the sheriff or other officer of the county 

 or district in which the common gaol is situated to which he is ordered 

 to be committed: and until such prisoner is so delivered into the 

 immediate custody of any sheriff or gaoler the fishery officer, sti- 

 pendiary magistrate or naval officer having him in charge, shall have, 

 in all places through which it is necessary to convey such prisoner, 

 the same authority and power in regard to such prisoner, and to 

 command the aid of any of His Majesty's subjects in preventing his 

 escape, or in retaking him in case of escape, as any county or district 

 sheriff or peace officer has while lawfully conveying a prisoner from 

 one part of his own district to another. R. S., c. 95, s. 17. 



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69. Every subject of His Majesty may use vacant public property, 

 such as by law is common and accessory to public rights of fishery 

 and navigation, for the purposes of landing, salting, curing and drying 

 fish, and may cut wood thereon for such purposes, and no other 

 person shall occupy the same station unless it nas been abandoned 

 by the first occupant for twelve consecutive months; and at th • 

 expiration of that period any new occupier shall pay the value of 

 Hakes and stages and other property thereon, of which he takes 

 possession, or the buildings and improvements may be removed by 

 the original owner. 



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(3). Xo property leased or licensed shall be deemed vacant. R. S., 

 c. 95, s. 22. 



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OFFENCES AND PENALTIES. 



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3 1. Except taking bait for cod-fishing or angling for purposes other 

 than those of trade and commerce, every one who fishes for, takes, 

 >r kills fish in any water, or along any beach, or within any 

 fishery limits, described in any lease or license, or places, uses, draws 

 or sets therein any fisKing gear or apparatus, except by permission 

 of the occupant under such lease or license for the time being, or 

 disturbs or injures any fishery, shall be liable to a penalty not 



