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XIV. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel shall be 

 permitted or suffered to clear out at the Custom-House, from any 

 port, harbor, out-port or place in this Province, until the 

 613 master or Commander, or other peason having charge or com- 

 mand of such ship or vessel, shall produce and exhibit to the 

 Collector or other Officer of His Majesty's Customs, at the said port, 

 harbor, out-port or place, a Certificate signed by the Collector author- 

 ized to collect the same, that the Duty or Duties hereby imposed on 

 such ship or vessel have been fully paid and discharged. 



No. 1Z.1836, March 12: Statute of Nova Scotia, 6 William 77, 



Cap. 8. 



An Act relating to the Fisheries, and for the Prevention of Illicit Trade in the 

 Province of Nova-Scotia, and the Coasts and Harbors thereof. 



{Passed the 12th day of March, 1836.'] 



Whereas, by the Convention made between His late Majesty King 

 George the Third and the United States of America, signed at Lon- 

 don, on the Twentieth day of October, in the Year of Our Lord One 

 Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen ; and the Statute made and 

 passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, in the Fifty-ninth Year 

 of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, all Foreign 

 Ships, Vessels or Boats, or any Ship, Vessel or Boat, other than such 

 as shall be navigated according to the Laws of the United Kingdom 

 of Great-Britain and Ireland, found fishing, or to have been fishing, 

 or preparing to fish, within certain distances of any Coasts, Bays, 

 Creeks or Harbours whatever, in any part of His Majesty's Domin- 

 ions in America, not included within the limits specified in the first 

 article of the said Convention, are liable to seizure; And whereas, 

 the United States did, by the said Convention, renounce forever any 

 liberty enjoyed or claimed by the Inhabitants thereof, to take, dry 

 or cure fish on or within three Marine Miles of any of the Coasts, 

 Bays, Creeks or Harbours of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in 

 America, not included within the above mentioned limits; Provided 

 however, that the American fishermen should be admitted to enter 

 such Bays or Harbours for the purpose of shelter, and of repairing 

 damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and 

 for no other purpose whatever, but under such restrictions as might 

 be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing Fish therein, 

 or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges thereby re- 

 served to them; And whereas, no rules or regulations have been made 

 for such purpose, and the interests of the Inhabitants of this Prov- 

 ince are materially impaired; And whereas, the said Act does not 

 designate the persons who are to make such seizure as aforesaid 

 and it frequently happens that persons found within the distances 

 of the Coasts aforesaid, infringing the articles of the Convention 

 aforesaid, and the enactments of the statute aforesaid, on being taken 

 possession of, profess to have come within said limits for the pur- 

 pose of shelter, and repairing damages therein, or to purchase wood 

 and obtain water, by which the law is evaded, and the vessels and 



