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from the amount collected ten per cent, which it shall be lawful for 

 such Deputy Province Treasurer to retain for his trouble in collecting 

 the same. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That every master of such ship or 

 vessel who shall refuse or neglect to call upon the Deputy Province 

 Treasurer, or such person as he may appoint for said county or 

 place, and pay to him such tonnage duties as are herein before im- 

 posed within five days after his arrival, shall forfeit and pay for 

 such neglect the sum of three pounds, to be sued for by the said 

 Deputy Province Treasurer or other person authorised to receive the 

 same, and recovered before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the 

 Peace, and applied for the purpose of erecting, repairing, and re- 

 placing such beacons and buoys. 



V. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners to be ap- 

 pointed in pursuance of this Act, shall at the first Court of General 

 Sessions of the Peace, held in the County of Northumberland, in each 

 and every year, render an account yearly of the monies from time to 

 time received and expended in pursuance of this Act, the balance if 

 any to be applied by the said Commissioners, or the major part of 

 them, for the purpose of further improving the navigation of said 

 bays and harbors. 



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

 take away, destroy, deface or remove any of the said beacons or 

 buoys, such offender or offenders shall on due conviction thereof by 

 the oath of one or more credible witness or \vitnesses before any one of 

 His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay the sum of five 

 pounds to be recovered and applied as aforesaid, and on failure of 

 the payment thereof, or want of goods and chattels whereon to levy ; 

 such offender or offenders shall be committed by such Justice to the 

 County Gaol for a space of time not exceeding one month. 



VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be and con- 

 tinue in force for the term of five years and no longer." 



604 No. 60. 1810, March 14-' Extract from Statute of New Bruns- 

 wick, 50 Geo. Ill, Cap. W. 



An Act, for the further regulation of Fisheries, and for preventing their decay. 



Passed the 14th of March, 1810. 



Whereas by an Act made and passed in the thirty-third year of 

 His Majesty's year, intituled "An Act for regulating the Fisheries in 

 the different rivers, coves and creeks of this Province ; " it is enacted 

 that no net shall be set in the river Saint John, below the Boar's Head, 

 or in the harbor of Saint John, more than twenty fathoms in length : 

 and whereas doubts have arisen as to the outward limits of the said 

 harbor : 



I. Be it enacted by the President Council and Assembly, That no 

 net more than twenty fathoms in length, shall be set in any part of 

 the said harbor on the northerly side of Partridge Island,.nor within 



a Continued by 54 Geo. 3, c. 3, and 58 Geo. 3, c. 11, and made perpetual by 3 

 Geo.. 4, c. 4. 



