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the preceding possessor or his lawful attorney, such demand being 

 made within one year after possession taken, pay him for such part 

 of the flakes and stages, as such new occupier shall have taken 

 possession of. And provided further, that the said preceding pos- 

 sessor not having been paid as aforesaid may remove any building or 

 other improvements erected or made by him on the unoccupied beach 

 as aforesaid, so that such removal be not made during and before 

 the close of the fishing season in which the new occupier shall have 

 taken possession. 



III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no 

 ballast or anything else injurious or hurtful to any of the rivers, 

 harbours or roads within the said District of Gaspe, shall be thrown 

 out of any vessels or discharged into any stream, basin or road, but 

 that the same shall be carried on shore, and deposited where no pub- 

 lic or private injury may be sustained thereby, nor shall any person 

 or persons throw any fishcuts, offals or gurry overboard, within the 

 distance of four leagues from the shore and islands of the inferior 

 District of Gaspe aforesaid, under the penalty of Ten Pounds, Cur- 

 rent money of this Province. 



IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no 

 person or persons shall cast anchor near the shore, or do anything 

 within the aforesaid limits, so as to annoy or obstruct the hauling 

 of Seines or setting of Nets, under the penalty of Two Pounds, cur- 

 rent money of this Province, for every such offence, exclusive of 

 such damages as may be recovered at Law, by the proprietor or pro- 

 prietors of the Seines or Nets which may be thereby injured or de- 

 stroyed. 



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XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it 

 shall and may be lawful for the judge of the provincial court for the 

 inferior district of Gaspe with two or more justices of the peace of 

 the said district, to meet at Carleton in the Bay of Chaleurs, and at 

 Percy in the entry of the Bay of Gaspe, on the first day of each of 

 the general sessions of the peace, to be there held_ yearly in and for 

 the said inferior district of Gaspe, and, if necessary, on such other 

 subsequent days during the said general sessions, as the said pro- 

 vincial judge and justices shall fix and appoint, and, when so met. to 

 make and frame such reasonable orders, rules and regulations respect- 

 ing the said fisheries, and all matters and things concerning the 

 same, as may not be repugnant to this Act, nor to any law of this 

 province, and as [to] the said provincial judge and justices shall 

 seem meet for the putting better this Act in execution, and more par- 

 ticularly for the governing and regulating all persons who shall 

 fish or dredge in the rivers and streams in the said inferior district 

 of Gaspe, frequented by fish in the spawning season, and to declare 

 in what manner such persons shall demean themselves in fishing, 

 and with what manner of nets and engines, and at what times and 

 seasons they shall use fishing in the said rivers and streams, and for 

 the preservation, from time to time, of the spawn or fry of fish in 

 the said rivers and streams, and for regulating the manner of placing 

 seines and nets in the havens, rivers, creeks and harbours in the 

 said inferior District of Gaspe, and to annex reasonable penalties 

 and forfeitures for the breach of such orders, rules and regulations, 

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