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of the herring, caplin, squid or other bait fishes which have been sold, 

 purchased, hauled, taken, conveyed or exported in violation of the 

 provisions of this chapter [act], or the terms of any license thereunder, 

 or of the boat or vessel on board of which such bait fishes shall be 

 found to have been unlawfully shipped, conveyed or exported, and 

 the forfeiture of any license held by the offender. 



11. Any person who shall sell any herring, caplin, squid or other 

 bait fishes for the purpose of shipping or putting on board of any ship 

 or vessel, or for the purpose of exportation to any person not holding 

 or producing a license under this chapter [act], shall be liable to a fine 

 not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding 

 three months. 



12. In any prosecution under the next preceding section, the onus 

 of proof that the bait fishes were not intended for shipment or for 

 exportation shall rest upon the party accused: Provided there be 

 proof of a sale under such circumstances as shall be consistent with a 

 reasonable presumption that shipment or exportation was intended. 



13. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, appoint 

 special commissioners for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of 

 tliis chapter [act]. 



14. Any such commissioner, or any Justice of the Peace, Sub-col- 

 lector, Preventive ollicer, fishery warden or constable may board and 

 examine and search any boat or vessel suspected of having on board, 

 or of conveying or exporting bait fishes contrary to the provisions of 

 this chapter [act], or of any license granted thereunder; and in case 

 any such commissioner, Justice of the Peace, Sub-collector, Preventive 

 officer, fishery warden, constable, or the crew of any vessel employed 

 by the < rovernment, shall make a signal by hoisting the International 

 signal B. M. I., meaning "Heave to, I will send a boat," and firing a 



?run. or by dipping at the main peak three times the Hag with the 

 >adge of the colony, as prescribed by the Colonial regulations, it shall 

 be the duty of the owner, master or person managing or controlling 

 such vessel to Leave to until such commissioner, Justice, Sub-col- 

 lector, fishery warden or constable shall have boarded and examined 

 such last-named vessel; and in case of such owner, master or person 

 managing or controlling such last-named vessel omitting to heave her 

 to, or obstructing or omitting to a I lord facilities for such commis- 

 sioner, Justice, Sub-collector, Preventive ollicer, fishery warden or 

 Constable in boarding and examining such vessel, he shall be subject 

 to b penalty uot exceeding live, hundred dollars or to imprisonment 



for a term QOt exceeding three months. The master of any vessel 



who shall refuse or unreasonably delay in obeying such signal may 

 be arrested and brought before a stipendiary Magistrate, and his 

 \ esse! may be seized and held by any Bucb commissioner, Just ice, Sub- 

 collector, Preventive officer , fishery warden or constable until an adju- 

 dication shall have taken place, upon a complaint under this section, 

 i 5. Any person found hauling, catching, taking, purchasing, selling, 



.-hipping or conveying any bait fishes, or any person having any such 



fishes in his pos e ion, or the ma ter, owner or new of any boat or 



Vet 'I on hoard of which any had fishes may be found, may he 



mined on oath by a Justice oi the Peace, Sub-collector or Pre- 

 ventive officer, fishery warden or commissioner, appointed under 

 this chapter [act], as to the quantit) and kind of bait fishes in his 



