204 LEGISLATIVE ACTS. PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



41. All frozen herring shall, in this Colony, be sold or purchased, 

 delivered or received, either by weight, or by the standard measure, 

 which shall be one imperial bushel of eight gallons. 



42. No vessel or craft of any description, loading or taking on 

 board fresh, frozen or salted herrings in Newfoundland waters, shall 

 anchor or be moored in any hauling-place, cove or inlet which her- 

 rings are in the habit of frequenting, or in which they are being caught. 



43. '1 lie Department of Marine and Fisheries may appoint a Board 

 of Harbor and Sanitary Commissioners in any place, the limits of 

 which shall be defined in their appointment, to consist of one or 

 more inhabitants of such place, and the duties of such one or more 

 commissioners shall be to select and appoint suitable places where 

 spoiled herring or other fish offal of lobster and other fishes, ballast 

 and rubbish may be disposed without injury to the fisheries or the 

 health of the inhabitants, and where vessels shall be moored; and 

 any person who shall throw, place or deposit any such fish offal, 

 ballast or rubbish, or shall moor any vessel at or within the said 

 limits other than that so selected and appointed, shall be guilty of 

 a violation of these rules. 



44. No ballast or rubbish of any kind shall be thrown overboard 

 from any vessel or boat inside of a straight line drawn from Mynter's 

 Point to Bill Point, via Turnip's Cove, in Bay-du-Nord, Fortune 

 Bay. 



(a) No ballast or rubbish of any kind shall be thrown overboard 

 from any vessel or boat coming to Bay-du-Nord Brook, Fortune Bay, 

 inside of a straight line running across from Farrel's Cove Point to 

 the outside point at Yankee Cove, provided that ballast from any 

 vessel may be thrown under the wharves in said places, should the 

 owner of the same consent thereto. 



(b) No vessel, craft or boat shall anchor, or remain at anchor, or 

 be moored anywhere in Bay d'East, Fortune Bay, for the purpose of 

 freezing herring, or of loading or of taking on board fresh or frozen 

 herring or herring to be salted, in bulk or in barrels, provided that 

 any vessel, craft or boat coming to Bay d'East in the spring of the 

 year, after the ice has disappeared, for fresh or salted herrings, may 

 be allowed to anchor, dress or cure herrings inside of a straight line 

 drawn from Indian Point to North-west Point at the mouth of North- 

 west Brook. 



(c) All vessels, crafts or boats coming to Simms' Brook, or St. 

 Keel's, in Fortune Bay, for frozen or salted herrings, shall be moored 

 fore and aft as close to land as they can safely float. 



id) No vessel shall anchor for the purpose of taking and icing down 

 caplin bait in the harbor of Cape Broyle, in the district of Ferryland, 

 outside a line drawn from Admiral's Head on the north side to Gentle- 

 man's Point on the south. 



45. No person shall throw any herring from any scaffold, vessel 

 or boat into the water; but all spoiled herrings, which cannot be 

 disposed of as an article of human food, or for bait purposes, shall 

 be carried to such places as the harbor and sanitary commissioners 

 may direct, and be used as manure. 



46. No person shall throw any ballast, sand or rubbish into the 

 water which herring are known to frequent, but all such ballast, sand 

 or rubbish shall be carried to such places as the harbor and Sanitary 

 Commissioners may direct. 



