198 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



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

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

 seized and secured by any officer or person mentioned in the first sec- 

 tion hereof, and every person opposing any such 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 five hundred dollars. 



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

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

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

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

 facie evidence of the purchase of the said bait fishes and supplies and 

 outfits within such port or waters. 



4. All offenders against the provisions of this Act may be prose- 

 cuted and convicted, and all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and other 



Eunishments imposed, recovered and made in a summary manner 

 efore a Stipendiary Magistrate, and any vessel, and the tackle, rig- 

 ging, apparel, furniture, stores and cargo thereof liable to forfeiture 

 under the provisions of this Act, may be sued for, prosecuted, recov- 

 ered and condemned in a summary manner before a Stipendiary 

 Magistrate in a proceeding against the master or other person in 

 charge of such vessel. For the purposes of this Act all Stipendiary 

 Magistrates shall be deemed to be Stipendiary Magistrates for the 

 Colony, and may exercise the jurisdiction given by this Act in any 

 part of the Colony. 



5. If any person convicted under this Act shall feel himself aggrieved 

 by such conviction, he may appeal there from, to the then next sitting 

 of His Majesty's Supreme Court, holden in or nearest the place where 

 such conviction shall have been had, or in St. Johns ; Provided notice 

 of such appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, be given to the 

 convicting Magistrate, in writing, within seven days next after such 

 conviction, and the party desiring to appeal shall also, without four- 

 teen days after such notice, give and enter into recognizance with two 

 approved sureties before the convicting Magistrate, conditioned for 

 the appearance of the person convicted at such next sitting of the 

 Supreme Court, on the first day of such sitting, for the prosecution of 

 the appeal with effect and without delay, to abide the judgment of 

 the Court thereon, and for the delivery and surrender of any vessel 

 or other property ordered to be confiscated, and to pay such costs as 

 the Court may award. 



6. No proceeding or conviction by, nor order of, any Magistrate or 

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

 informality; provided the same shall be substantially in accordance 

 with the intent and meaning of this Act. 



7. Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights and privileges granted 

 by Treaty to the subjects of any State in amity with His Majesty. 



8. The Governor in Council may at any time, by proclamation, 

 suspend the operation of this Act for such period as may be expedient 

 and as shall be declared in such proclamation. 



9. In this Act the word "vessel" shall include any boat or ship 

 registered or not registered, jack, skill', punt or launch, whether pro- 

 pelled by sails, oars or steam. 



10. The Act 56 Vic, cap. 6, entitled "An Act respecting Foreign 

 Fishing Vessels," is hereby repealed. 



