178 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



21. All forfeitures and penalties imposed by this chapter shall be 

 recovered with costs in a summary manner before any Justice, for 

 which purpose such Justice may summon or arrest the offender, and 

 compel wit aesses, by summons or warrant, to appear before him; and 

 upon conviction of the offender, such Justice shall (except under sec- 

 tions fourteen, fifteen and sixteen) cause all seines, nets and other 

 contrivances illegally used to be sold by public auction; and, in 

 default of the payment of any penalty imposed and costs, such Justice 

 shall issue his warrant and cause such offender to be arrested and 

 imprisoned for an} r period not exceeding twenty days. 



22. The Governor in Council may appoint the Collector of Revenue 

 for Labrador, or other person, to be Superintendent of the Fisheries 

 on the coast of this Colony and its dependencies, and may also appoint 

 Fishery Wardens, and prescribe their duties for the purposes of this 

 chapter. The compensation for the services of such officers to be 

 provided by the Legislature. 



23. After two years from the ninth day of May, 1888, it shall 

 be unlawful for any person to use any cod-trap for the purpose of 

 cat clung or taking any codfish on the coast of this Colony or its 

 dependencies. 



24. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the next pre- 

 ceding section of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty not exceed- 

 ing four hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before 

 a stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, and, in default of 

 payment of such penalty, such offender shall be subject to imprison- 

 ment for a term not exceeding six months. 



25. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chap- 

 ter, for the violation of which no penalty is named, shall be subject to 

 a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars; and all nets, and other con- 

 trivances used contrary to the provisions of this chapter (except those 

 referred to in sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen) shall be for- 

 feited, and may be seized by any Justice Sub-collector of Customs, 

 Preventive Officer, Fishery Warden or Constable, on view or by 

 virtue of a warrant issued by such Justice upon complaint made on 

 oath, and the same may be detained until the trial of the offender, 

 and, upon conviction, the same may be declared forfeited and ordered 

 to be sold by public auction. 



26. No proceeding or conviction by any Justice of the Peace or 

 other officer under this chapter shall be quashed or set aside for any 

 informality, if the same be substantially in accordance with the intent 

 and meaning of this chapter. 



27. If any person shall feel himself aggrieved by any order or judg- 

 ment of a Justice under the first, third, fourth, ninth, fourteenth and 

 twenty-fourth sections of this chapter, he shall have liberty to appeal 

 to the Supreme Court in St. John's or on circuit, upon giving suffi- 

 cient security for the due performance of such order or judgment, if 

 confirmed, and for the payment of all costs, and to prosecute the said 

 appeal. 



28. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the rights and privileges 



f ranted by treaty to the subjects of any state or power in amity with 

 ler Majesty. 



