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566 by any regulations which shall be issued by the governor or 

 person exercising the office of governor in any such parts of 

 His Majesty's dominions in America, under or in pursuance of any 

 such order in council as aforesaid. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, 

 upon requisition made by the governor of Newfoundland, or the per- 

 son exercising the office of governor, or by any governor or person 

 exercising the office of governor, in any other parts of His Majesty's 

 dominions in America as aforesaid, or by any officer or officers acting 

 under such governor or person exercising the office of governor, in 

 the execution of any orders or instructions from His Majesty in 

 council, shall refuse to depart from such bays or harbours; or if any 

 person or persons shall refuse or neglect to conform to any regula- 

 tions or directions which shall be made or given for the execution of 

 any of the purposes of this Act; every such person so refusing or 

 otherwise offending against this Act shall forfeit the sum of Two 

 hundred Pounds, to be recovered in the Superior Court of Judicature 

 of the Island of Newfoundland, or in the Superior Court of Judica- 

 ture of the colony or settlement within or near to which such offence 

 shall be committed, or by bill, plaint or information in any of His 

 Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster; one moiety of such 

 penalty to belong to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the 

 other moiety to such person or persons as shall sue or prosecute for 

 the same : Provided always, that any such suit or prosecution, if the 

 same be committed in Newfoundland, or in any other colony or set- 

 tlement, shall be commenced within three calendar months; and, if 

 commenced in any of His Majesty's courts at Westminster, within 

 twelve calendar months from the time of the commission of such 

 offence. 



No. 28. 1819, June 19: Order in Council. 

 At the Court at Carlton House, the 19th June, 1819. 



Present : His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council. 



Whereas an Act was passed in the present session of Parliament, 

 entitled "An Act to enable His Majesty to make regulations with 

 respect to the taking and curing fish in certain parts of the coasts of 

 Newfoundland, Labrador, and His Majesty's other possessions in 

 North America, according to a convention made between His Majesty 

 and the United States of America," wherein it is enacted, that 

 "whereas a convention between His Majesty and the United States of 

 America was made and signed at London on the 20th day of October, 

 1818, and by the first article of the said convention it is agreed that 

 the inhabitants of the said United States shall have for ever, in com- 

 mon with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take 

 fish of every kind on that part of the southern coast of Newfound- 

 land which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the 

 western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape 

 Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, 

 and also on the coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks from Mount Joly, 

 on the southern coasts of Labrador, to and through the Straits of 



