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service of the Government of Canada, and employed in the service 

 of protecting the fisheries, or any officer of the customs of Canada, 

 sheriff, magistrate, or other person duly commissioned for that pur- 

 pose, may go on board of any ship, vessel, or boat, within any har- 

 bour in Canada, or hovering (in British waters) within three marine 

 miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours in Canada, and 

 stay on board as long as she may remain within such place or dis- 

 tance ; and that any one of such officers or persons as are above men- 

 tioned may bring any ship, vessel, or boat, being within any harbour 

 in Canada or hovering (in British waters) within three marine miles 

 of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours in Canada, into port, 

 and search her cargo, and may also examine the master upon oath, 

 touching the cargo and voyage; and if the master or person in com- 

 mand shall not truly answer the questions put to him in such exami- 

 nation, he shall forfeit four hundred dollars; and if such ship, ves- 

 sel, or boat, be foreign, or not navigated according to the laws of 

 the United Kingdom, or of Canada, and has been found fishing or 

 preparing to fish, or to have been fishing (in British waters) within 

 three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of 

 Canada, not included within the above mentioned limits, without a 

 licence, or after the expiration of the period named in the last 

 licence granted to such ship, vessel, or boat, under the first section 

 of this Act, such ship, vessel, or boat, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, 

 furniture, stores, and cargo thereof, shall be forfeited. And that all 



foods, ships, vessels, and boats, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, 

 urniture, stores, and cargo, liable to forfeiture under this Act, may 

 be seized and secured by any officers or persons mentioned in the 

 second section of this Act. And every person opposing any officer 

 or person in the execution of his duty under this Act, or aiding, or 

 abetting any other person in any opposition, shall forfeit eight hun- 

 dred dollars, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon con- 

 viction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. 

 It will be observed, that the warning formerly given is not re- 

 quired under the amended Act, but that vessels are liable to seizure 

 without such warning. 



On the 8th of January, 1870, the Governor General of the Domin- 

 ion of Canada, in Council, ordered that suitable sailing vessels, simi- 

 lar to the " La Canadienne," be chartered and equipped for the 

 service of protecting the Canadian in-shore fisheries against illegal 

 encroachments by foreigners, these vessels to be connected with the 

 police force of Canada, and to form a marine branch of the same. 

 It is understood that, by a change of the boundaries between Canada 

 and Labrador, the Canadian territory now includes Mount Joly and 

 a portion of the shore to the east thereof, which in the Treaty of 1818 

 was described as the southern coast of Labrador. This municipal 

 change of boundary does not, however, interfere with the rights of 

 American fishermen, as defined by the Treaty, on that portion of 

 what was the southern coast of Labrador, east of Mount Joly. 

 Very respectfully, 



GEO. S. BOUTWELL, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 



