868 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



15. That the several Admirals in their respective harbours and bays 

 in Newfoundland do, on or about the 20th day of September yearly, 

 publish in their said harbours and upon the shore his Majesty's orders 

 and commands forbidding all seamen or fishermen to stay or remain 

 in or upon the said Newfoundland, after the last day of October. 



16. And that the said Admirals do yearly keep journals of their 

 proceedings there, and at their return into England, deliver copies 

 of them, with an account of the number of ships, boats, stages, train 

 vats, &c., and of the seamen and fishermen belonging to and employed 

 in their respective harbours, unto his Majesty's Council for foreign 

 Plantations. 



17. That the several Recorders, or their deputies, and the Justices 

 of the Peace for the time being, of the respective ports, towns, and 

 places beforenamed, and one neighbouring Justice of the Peace for 

 the same county, may be joined in commission with the mayors of 

 the said ports, towns, and places respectively, and any two, or more 

 of them, oe empowered to take cognizance of all complaints made of 

 any offenders against the laws, rules, and orders established by his 

 Majesty for regulating the Newfoundland fishery, and to hear and 

 determine the same according as is provided and directed to the re- 

 spective mayors alone by his Majesty's said charter of confirmation. 



18. That reasonable fines, penalties, and forfeitures may be imposed 

 upon all masters, and owners of ships, seamen, fishermen, and other 

 persons employed in or about the fishery in Newfoundland as shall 

 offend in breaking his Majesty's rules and orders established for the 

 said fishery. 



And that all such fines, penalties, and forfeitures relating to the 

 fishing trade may be apportioned out, one third part of them to the 

 use of his Majesty, one third part to the use of the poor of the place 

 where such offence shall be prosecuted, and the other third part to the 

 informer, that shall prosecute the same, or otherwise in such manner, 

 and to such uses as his Majesty shall think fit. 



All which having been this day read and seriously considered at 

 the board, his Majesty was pleased to approve thereof, and did order, 

 that the several rules, powers, and authorities above recited be added 

 to, and inserted in the charter formerly granted by his Majesty for 

 the regulating of the Newfoundland fishery. 



And to that end Sir Heneage Finch Kn l and Bar* his Majesty's 

 Attorney-General, is hereby authorized and required to prepare a 

 bill for his Majesty's royal signature to pass the great seal of this 

 kingdom containing his Majesty's confirmation of the said charter, 

 with the additional powers and authorities, hereby ordered to be in- 

 serted therein. 



And whereas the said Council for foreign Plantations did further 

 represent unto his Majesty as their humble opinion and advice, that 

 the clause in his Majesty's said charter of confirmation, which cpn- 

 cerneth the powers of the earl marshal in the punishing of felonies, 

 murders, &c. committed in Newfoundland, may be reviewed, there 

 being at present no such office or court, and in lieu thereof if his 

 Majesty shall think fit, that a certaine way of judicature may be 

 established, for the hearing and determining of treasons, felonies, and 

 murders, and all criminal matters committed or done in Newfound- 

 land, on the shore or at sea, according to law and equity, and for the 

 awarding of execution thereupon, as the cause shall require. 



