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belonging to any person that is a freeholder and inhabitant in this 

 Province, shall only pay three pence per ton, the said duty to 

 592 be paid before clearing the said vessel, to such person or per- 

 sons, as shall hereafter be appointed, by His Excellency the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, for that purpose, who are hereby authorised 

 to demand and receive the same, and upon refusal of payment, to sue 

 for, and recover the said duty, before two of His Majesty's Justices 

 of the Peace, or in case the same shall not exceed forty shillings, 

 before one Justice. 



II. And be it further enacted, That no vessel shall be deemed a 

 fishing vessel within the meaning of this Act, excepting such as shall 

 be wholly employed in that business, nor shall any vessel be deemed 

 a coaster excepting such as shall be wholly employed within the 

 Province. 



III. And be it further enacted, That every coasting vessel shall 

 pay in lieu of the said duty at the rate of twenty shillings per annum, 

 and one shilling for every ton they may measure above twenty tons, 

 and no more, to be received and recovered in manner as aforesaid. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That all monies arising by the afore- 

 said duty, shall be paid into the treasury of the Province, and be 

 applied towards the support of the said light-house, to be issued for 

 the said purpose, by warrant under the hand and seal of the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being, of the 

 Province, and in case there be more monies than is necessary for the 

 support of the said light-house, the surplus to be applied to the uses 

 of the Government. 



No. 48. 1788. ' Extract from Statute of Lower Canada, 28 Geo. Ill, 



Cap. 6. 



An Act or Ordinance, For regulating the Fisheries in the River St. Lawrence, 

 In the Bays of Gaspe and Chaleurs, on the Island of Bonaveuture, and the 

 opposite shore of Perce. 



Whereas the Fisheries have ever been found beneficial to the trade 

 of the mother-country, and as several large vessels have been yearly 

 fitted out and equipped therefrom to carry on the cod-fishery in the 

 Bay of Gaspe, at the island of Bonaventure, at Perce, and in the Bay 

 of Chaleurs in this Province, in order to encourage that valuable 

 branch of trade, it is enacted by His Excellency the Governor and the 

 Legislative Council, that all his Majesty's subjects shall peaceably 

 have, use and enjoy the freedom of taking bait, and of fishing in any 

 river, creek, harbour or road, with liberty to go on shore on any part 

 between Cape Cat on the South-side of the River St. Lawrence, and 

 the first Rapid in the River of Ristigouche, above the Islands that lie 

 higher up than the New Mission in the said River, which empties 

 itself into Chaleurs Bay within this Province, and on the Island of 

 Bonaventure, for the purpose of salting, drying and curing their fish, 

 and they may cut down wood and trees there, for building, making, 

 mending, or repairing stages, flakes, hurdles, huts or cook-rooms, and 

 other things that may be necessary for curing and preparing their 

 fish for exportation, and all other things that may be useful to their 



