STATUTES, PEOCLAMATIONS, BULES, ORDEKS, ETC. 1023 



I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, 

 and Assembly, that the Second Section of the said Act. be, and the 

 same is hereby repealed. 



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

 and after the passing of this Act, shall erect or set up any Hedge, 

 Wear, Fish Garth, or other incumbrance, or place any Seine or 

 Seines, Net or Nets, in the River or Bay of Miramichi, or its 

 Branches, except as is provided for in the said Act, and also in the 

 Act made and passed in the fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His 

 late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act in amend- 

 ment 01 an Act intituled An Act for regulating Fisheries in the 

 County of Northumberland," such person or persons so oifending, 

 shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence, the sum of Ten 

 Pounds, upon conviction thereof upon the Oath of one or more 

 credible Witness or Witnesses, before any Two of His Majesty's 

 Justices of the Peace for the said County, and levied by warrant of 

 distress ,and sale of the offender's Goods and Chattels, rendering 

 the overplus, if any, after deducting the Costs and Charges, to such 

 offender; and for want of sufficient goods and chattels whereon to 

 levy the said fine, such offender or offenders shall be imprisoned, 

 without Bail or mainprize for a term not less than Ten days, and 

 not exceeding twenty days; one half of which Penalties shall, on 

 conviction, to [sic] be paid to the informer, and the other half to 

 the Overseers of the Poor of the Town or Parish where such offence 

 shall be committed, to be applied to the use of the Poor of such 

 Town or Parish. 



III. And be it further enacted, That the said herein-before recited 

 Acts, excepting wherein the same are hereby altered and amended, 

 together with this Act, shall continue and be in force Five Years, and 

 thence to the end of the next Session of the General Assembly. 



No. 66. 1824, March 9: Extract from Statute of Lower Canada, 4 



Geo. IV, cap. 1. 



An Act for the better Regulation of the Fisheries in the Inferior District of 

 Gasp, and in the Counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland. 



\9th March, 1824.] 



Whereas the fisheries, in the inferior district of Gaspe, and in the 

 counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland, are of great importance 

 to the trade of this province: Be it therefore enacted by the King's 

 Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Legislative Council and Assembly of the province of Lower-Canada, 

 constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an 

 Act passed in the Parliament of Great-Britain, intituled, "An Act to 

 repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His 

 Majesty's reign, intituled, 'An Act for making more effectual provi- 

 sion for the government of the province of Quebec, in North 

 America '/ and to make further provision for the government of 

 the said province " ; and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the 

 same, that all and every His Majesty's subjects, shall peaceably 



