OF THE COLONY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 177 



11. No person shall buy or sell, or have in his possession, salmon, 

 knowing the same to have been taken contrary to the provisions of 

 this chapter; and every salmon so taken, bought or sold, shall be de- 

 clared forfeited to the complainant by any Justice. 



12. No person shall, at any time, haul, catch or take squids within, 

 or by means of any seine, bunt, or other such contrivances. 



13. No person shall, between the hours of twelve o'clock on Satur- 

 day night and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, take or catch, in any 

 manner whatever, or by any contrivance whatsoever, any herring, 

 caplin, squid, or any other bait fish, or set or put out any contrivances 

 whatsoever, for the purpose of taking or catching herring, caplin, 

 squid, or other bait fish. 



14. It shall not be lawful for any person to manufacture into 

 manure or into any article to be used as manure, either by machinery 

 or by artificial chemical process, or by the use of both, any caplin, 

 herring, squid, or other fish used as bait in the prosecution of the 

 fisheries of this Colony and its dependencies. Every person who shall 

 violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty of 

 five hundred dollars for each offence. 



15. It shall not be lawful for any person to throw overboard or 

 deposit upon the fishing grounds or ledges, on or near the coasts of 

 this Colony and its dependencies, any heads, entrails, bones or offal 

 of the cod-fish. Every person who shall violate the provisions of 

 this section shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding two hundred 

 dollars, or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not exceed- 

 ing sixty days for each offence. 



16. N'o person shall, upon the coasts of this Colony or its dependen- 

 cies, use, for the purpose of taking codfish, any trap, the walls or 

 sides of which consisted at its original construction of meshes less 

 than four inches, and no netting for alterations or repairs of cod- 

 traps shall be less than four inches. 



17. No cod-trap shall be set on any of the fishing grounds of this 

 Colony or its dependencies at a less distance than eighty fathoms 

 from the nearest point of any cod-trap previously set, nor at a less 

 distance than fifty fathoms from any cod net previously set: Pro- 

 vided I hat, if a cod-trap be set out on any of the fishing grounds afore- 

 said, and subsequently a second trap be set at a greater distance than 

 eighty fathoms therefrom, it shall be lawful for the owner of the third 

 trap to set the same at a distance of at least eighty fathoms of the 

 first trap set out. 



is. No cod-net shall be set on any of the fishing grounds of this 

 Colony or its dependencies at a less distance than fifty fathoms from 

 the neatest point of any cod-trap or cod-net previously set. 



I'.i. When anj person shall have set a cod trap, cod-net or bultow, 

 and the same mall become damaged to an extent rendering it neces- 

 sary that it be taken up for the purpose of repairs, he shall have the 

 right to re -ei his cod trap, cod-net, or bultow in the place from 

 whence it has been taken up for a period of one week from the time 

 w hen it was so taken up. 



'_'(). No net shall he moored or set in any harhor. COVe, creek or 

 estuary, or on or near any part of the coast of this Colony or its 

 dependencies, for the purpose of taking salmon, nearer to any other 

 net moored or set for a like purpose than one hundred yards for a 

 single net and three hundred yards for a double not or fleet of nets. 



