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wherein the offence may be committed, and circumstances may render 

 it expedient to enforce, without delay, the penalties by this Act im- 

 posed, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace before whom 

 the plaint or information may have been lodged, to issue a Summons, 

 returnable before him immediately after service thereof, or within 

 such reasonable time as he shall by the said Summons appoint; and 

 if, on the return of such summons, or at the time thereby appointed, 

 the Defendant shall not appear to answer thereto, the Justice of the 

 Peace who may have issued such Summons, on receiving satisfactory 

 proof of the service thereof upon the Defendant, shall proceed in a 

 summary manner to receive evidence of and concerning the offence 

 alleged against the Defendant, and if such evidence be sufficient to 

 warrant a conviction, such Justice of the Peace shall forthwith, after 

 entry of the conviction in a register to be by him kept for the purpose, 

 be authorised and empowered to enforce the same according to the 



provisions of this Act. 



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XLVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 that this Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of 

 May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty- 

 nine, and no longer. 



No. 67. 1889, February 10: Statute of New Brunswick, 9 and 10 



Geo. IV, Cap. 3. 



An Act to continue the Laws for regulating the Fisheries in the County of 



Northumberland. 



[Passed 10th February, 1829.] 



Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, 

 That a certain act passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of His 

 late Majesty King George the third, intituled "An Act for regulat- 

 ing the Fisheries in the County of Northumberland;" and also a 

 certain other Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of His 

 said Majesty, intituled, "An Act in amendment of an Act intituled, 

 'An Act for regulating the Fisheries in the County of Northumber- 

 land ; ' " and also a certain other Act passed in the fourth year of 

 the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act in further 

 amendment of the Laws for regulating the fisheries in the County 

 of Northumberland ; " so far as the said several Acts are now in force, 

 be, and the same are hereby continued and declared to be in force 

 until the tenth day of May, which will be in the year of our Lord one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. 



610 No. 68. 1829, March 14: Extract from Statute of Lower 

 Canada, 9 Geo. IV, cap. 1$. 



An Act relating to the Fisheries in the County of Gasp6. 



(14th March, 1829.} 



Whereas an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty's reign, 

 chapter first, for regulating the fisheries in the inferior district of 

 Gaspe, and in the counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland, will 



