1 SI LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



ACT OF MAY 24, 1893, RESPECTING FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS. 



(56 Vict., cap. 6.) 

 AN ACT Respecting Foreign Fishing-vessels. 



Be it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and House 

 of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: — 



1. The Governor in Council may authorize the issuing of licenses to 

 foreign fishing-vessels, enabling them to enter any port on the coasts 

 (if this island for the following purposes: The purchase of bait, ice, 

 seines, lines, and all other supplies and outfits for the fishery, and for 

 t he shipping of crews. 



2. Any Justice of the Peace, sub-collector, preventive officer, fishery 

 warden, or constable may go on board any foreign fishing- vessel within 

 any port on the coasts of this island, or hovering in British waters 

 within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or har- 

 bours in this island, and may stay on board such vessel so long as she 

 remains within such port or distance. 



3. Any one of the officers or persons hereinbefore mentioned may 

 bring any foreign fishing-vessel, being within any port on the coasts 

 of this island, or hovering in British waters within three marine miles 

 of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of this island, into port, 

 may search her cargo and may examine the master upon oath touching 

 the cargo and voyage; and the master or person in command shall 

 answer truly such questions as shall be put to him, under a penalty 

 not exceeding 500 dollars. And if such foreign fishing- vessel has on 

 board any herring, caplin, squid, or other bait fishes, ice, lines, seines, 

 or other outfits or supplies for the fishery, purchased within any port 

 on the coasts of this island, or within the distance of three marine 

 miles from any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of this island, 

 or if the master of the said vessel shall have engaged or attempted to 

 engage any person to form part of the crew of the said vessel in any 

 port, or on any part of the coasts of this is! nd, without a license 

 therefor in writing first granted to any such vessel under the provisions 

 of this Act, or has entered such waters for any purpose not permitted 

 by Treaty, Convention, or Act of the Legislature for the time being in 

 force, such vessel and the tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, stores 

 and cargo thereof shall be forfeited. 



4. All goods and vessels, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, 

 stores and cargo thereof, liable to forfeiture under this Act may be 

 seized and secured by any officer or person mentioned in the second 

 section of this Act, and every person opposing any officer or person in 

 the execution of his duty under this Act, or aiding or abetting any 

 other person in such opposition, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanour and liable to a fine of 500 dollars. 



5. In any prosecution under this Act, the presence on board of any 

 foreign fishing- vessel, in any port of this island, or within British 

 waters aforesaid, of any caplin, squid, or other bait fishes, of ice, 

 lines, seines, or other outfits or supplies for the fishery shall be "prima 

 facie, evidence of the purchase of the said bait fishes and outfits within 

 such port or waters, and the refusal or failure to produce a license 

 upon being called upon so to do shall be prima fane evidence of the 

 purchase of bait, ice, lines, seines, or other supplies or outfits for the 

 fishery without a license. 



