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signalled to heave-to such vessel until such justice, sub-collector, pre- 

 ventive officer, fishery warden, constable or commissioner, shall have 

 boarded and examined such last-named vessel, and in case of such 

 master, owner, or person managing or controlling as aforesaid such 

 last-named vessel omitting so to heave-to, or to afford facilities for 

 such justice, sub-collector, preventive officer, fishery warden, constable 

 or commissioner boarding or examining such vessel, he shall be sub- 

 ject to a penalty of five hundred dollars, or in default of payment, to 

 imprisonment for a period of three months. The master of any 

 vessel who shall refuse to obey or unreasonably delay in obeying such 

 signal may be arrested and brought before a justice of the peace, and 

 his vessel may be seized and held by any such justice, sub-collector, 

 preventive officer, fishery warden, constable or commissioner until an 

 adjudication shall have taken place upon a complaint hereunder. 



13. Any person found hauling, catching, taking, purchasing, selling, 

 shipping, or conveying bait fishes, or any person having such bait 

 fishes in his possession, or the master, owner or crew of any boat or 

 vessel on board of which any bait fishes may be found, may be exam- 

 ined on oath by a justice of the peace, sub-collector, preventive 

 ollicer, fishery warden or commissioner, specially appointed, as to the 

 quantity and kind of bait fishes in his possession or on board of such 

 boat or vessel, the purpose for which such bait fishes are intended to 

 be used or as to the place to which such bait fishes are intended to be 

 conveyed or exported, and upon his refusing to answer, or answering 

 untruly, such justice, sub-collector, preventive officer, fishery warden 

 or commissioner may seize the boat or vessel on board of which such 

 bait fishes shall have been hauled or caught or put, kept, shipped, 

 carried, conveyed or exported, or on board of which the same may 

 have been found, her tackle, apparel, furniture and outfit and the said 

 bait fishes so found as aforesaid, and may hold the same until an 

 adjudication shall have been had upon a complaint in relation to such 

 alleged offences. 



14. Any person who shall be guilty of any breach or violation of, 

 or non-compliance with these rules and regulations, or of the terms 

 and conditions of any license granted hereunder, or of aiding, abet- 

 ting, or assisting in or procuring any such breach, violation or non- 

 compliance, BhaTl be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, or in the alternative or in default of payment of such penalty 

 to imprisonment not exceeding six months. 



15. In addition to any penalty or punishment provided by these 

 rules, the vessel in, on board of, or in respect, of which any breach or 

 violation of, or non-compliance with such rules has taken place, and 

 any boats, Beines, nets, implements and appliances used in, upon or 

 in connection with such breach, violation, or non-compliance, shall 

 be liable to conn cation, and any license, the terms 01 which may 

 have been violated, shall be forfeited. 



16. All offences under these rules and all penalties and forfeitures 

 thereby provided shall he prosecuted and imposed in a summary 

 manner before any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the. Peace. 



17. Jf any person convicted under these rules Bhall feel himself 

 aggrieved by such conviction, and the penalty imposed exceeds one 

 hundred dollars, or the penalty and the value of any boat, gear or 

 other property forfeited together amount to more than one hundred 

 dollars, he may appeal therefrom to the then next titting of His 

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



