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manner whatsoever, any herring, caplin, squid, or any other bait fish, 

 or set or put out any contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of tak- 

 ing or catching herring, caplin, squid, or other bait fish. Caplin may 

 be taken for fertilizing purposes by farmers or their employees during 

 the usual season. 



79. No person shall dig, take, buy, sell, ship or put, or assist in 

 shipping or putting on board any boat, ship or vessel, or carry in or 

 on board of any ship, vessel or boat, any clams, mussels, scallops, 

 cock-and-hens, or other shell fish, for the purpose of exportation, or 

 for any other purpose, except that of being bona fide for bait for the 

 fisheries of this Colony, or of the same as prosecuted therefrom, or 

 under a foreign fishing license in accordance with the rules thereon: 

 Provided that any such shell fish may be taken for local food purposes 

 and for boiling and canning. 



80. No herring shall be sold to any foreign fishing vessel, licensed 

 under the laws of this Colony to purchase bait, under one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents a barrel of thirty-two imperial gallons, to be paid 

 by the master or crew of said foreign fishing vessel; nor any caplin 

 under four dollars a dory load, or forty cents per barrel of thirty-two 

 imperial gallons; nor any squid for less than twenty cents per hun- 

 dred by count, or two dollars per barrel of thirty-two imperial gallons. 



81. Fish required for scientific, procreative or experimental pur- 

 poses, may, under the written permission of the Secretary of the 

 Fisheries' Board, the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, or the Deputy 

 Minister thereof, be taken by any method at any time, anything in 

 these rules to the contrary notwithstanding. 



82. The Governor in Council may grant to any person a license to 

 erect houses on any part of the coast of this Colony for the cold stor- 

 age of bait fishes, and no person shall erect houses for the cold storage 

 of bait fishes on any part of the coast of the Colony without having 

 first obtained a license. 



83. All regulations heretofore made under the provisions of the 

 aforesaid Act are hereby repealed. 



84. Nothing in these rules shall affect any proceedings commenced, 

 or any penalty incurred, or any rights acquired, prior to their coming 

 into operation. 



Note. — The penalties applicable to the foregoing rules are pro- 

 vided in the aforesaid Act, and are as follows: "Everyone who vio- 

 lates any provisions of this Act, or of the regulations under it, shall 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs, and 

 in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 

 months. All materials, implements or appliances used, and all fish 

 caught, taken or killed in violation of this Act, or any regulations 

 under it, shall be confiscated to His Majesty, and may be seized on 

 view by any fishing officer, or taken or removed by any person, for 

 delivery to any Justice of the Peace." 



Eli Dawe, 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 

 St. John's, Newfoundland, 

 April 20th, 1905. 



