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which are in their respective possession or control on board 

 the boat, and may take copies thereof or of any part thereof ; 



(3.) Pie may muster the crew of the boat; 



(4.) He may require the master to appear and give any explana- 

 tion concerning his boat and her crew, and any person on 

 board his boat, and the said certificates of registry, licences, 

 official logbooks, official papers, articles or agreement, mus- 

 ter rolls, and other documents, or any of them; 



(5.) He may examine all sails, lights, small boats, anchors, grap- 

 nels, and fishing implements belonging to the boat; 



(6.) He may seize any instrument serving only or intended to 

 damage or destroy fishing implements, by cutting or other- 

 wise, which is found on board the boat or in the possession 

 of any person belonging to the boat; 



(7.) He may make any examination or inquiry which he deems 

 necessary to ascertain whether any contravention of the 

 provisions of this Act, or of any such Order of Council as 

 aforesaid has been committed, or to fix the amount of com- 

 pensation due for any damage done to another sea-fishing 

 boat, or to any person or property on board thereof or be- 

 longing thereto, and may administer an oath for such pur- 

 pose; and 



(8.) In the case of any person who appears to him to have com- 

 mitted any such contravention he may, without summons, 

 warrant, or other process, both take the offender and the 

 boat to which he belongs and the crew thereof to the nearest 

 or most convenient port, and bring him or them before a 

 competent Court, and detain him, it, and them in the port 

 until the alleged contravention has been adjudicated upon. 



13. For the purpose of carrying into effect the Convention, and 

 of exercising and performing the powers and duties thereby vested 

 in and imposed on cruisers and commanders of cruisers, a foreign 

 sea-fishery officer may, with respect to any British sea-fishing boat 

 and any sea-fishery officer, whether British or foreign, may, with 

 respect to any foreign sea-fishing boat to which this Act for the time 

 being applies, exercise any of the powers conferred by this Act on 

 British sea-fishery officers. 



Provided that 



(a.) Nothing in this section shall authorize a sea-fishery officer to 

 do anything not authorized by the Convention ; and 



(>.) The port to which any sea-fishing boat or any person belong- 

 ing thereto is taken shall, except where the nationality of 

 such boat is not evidenced by official papers, be a port of 

 the State to which such boat belongs. 



14. (1.) A sea-fishery officer shall be entitled to the same protection 

 in respect of any action or suit brought against him for any 



578 act done or omitted to be done in the execution of his duty 

 under this Act, as is given to any officer of Customs by the 

 Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, or any Act amending the same, 

 and (with reference to the seizure or detention of any ship) by any 

 Act relating to the registry of British ships. 



(2.) If any person obstructs any sea-fishery officer in acting under 

 the powers conferred by this Act, or refuse or neglect to comply 

 with any requisition or direction lawfully made or given by, or to 



