DESPATCHES, BEPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 845 



Statutes Vol. I, page 262 Your Lordship will observe that the 6th 

 sectn. of this Act empowers the Governor in Council to make Regu- 

 lations for the management or protection of the fisheries : this power 

 however has only been exercised in one instance, viz. for the u Dila- 

 tion of the fisheries belonging to the County of Northumberland. 



But by C. 64. Title 8. of the Revised Statutes Vol. I. page 147, the 

 Justices in Sessions of each county in the Province are invested with 

 the power to make Regulations " for the regulation of the fisheries 

 and of seines, nets and fish weirs within the harbours as well as 

 rivers belonging to their respt - ave counties," and Regulations of 

 this nature have frequently been issued, and are now in existence, 

 and have the force of law. 



I am not as yet in a position to furnish your Lordship with the 

 particulars of all these Regulations, but I hope to be able v the 

 next mail to send to your Lordship a complete set of all the i^aws, 

 Byelaws and Regulations, respecting the fisheries of this Province. 



It is impossible to expect that either the fishermen or even the 

 Government of the United States should be aware of the nature of 

 the local Regulations on this subject, even if they are cognisant of the 

 provisions of Provincial Statutes; and I therefore take the liberty 

 of submitting to your Lordship whether it might not be desirable 

 that I should receive instructions to forward to Her Majesty's 

 Minister at Washington, copies of these Laws and Regulations as 

 well as copies of any other Regulations of a similar character, which 

 may be hereafter issued. 



I have the honor to be your Lordship's most obedient frumble 

 servant 



J. H. T. MANNERS SUTTON 



Right Honourable Lord John Russell. M. P. &c &c &c 



205 No. 121. 1855, May 25: Letter from Lord John Russell (Brit- 

 ish Colonial Secretary] to Lieutenant- Governor of New 

 Brunswick. 



DOWNING STREET, 25th May 1855. 



SIR, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 38 of 

 the 5th. instant and to transmit to you five copies of the Laws and 

 Regulations in force in the British North American Provinces with 

 reference to the Fisheries. 



I concur in your opinion that it is very desirable that these Laws 

 should be communicated to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, in 

 the event of that Officer not being already in possession of them ; and 

 it will further be desirable that you should transmit to Mr. Crampton 

 and also to this Department copies of any other Regulations respect- 

 ing the Fisheries which may have been framed subsequently to those 

 in this collection, or may hereafter be framed. 

 I have the honor to be Sir, 



Your most obedient humble servant, 



J. RUSSELL. 

 Lieut : Governor the Honble. J. H. T. MANNERS SUTTON 



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