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month after such notice, to tender amends to the party complaining 

 or his Agent, and to plead such tender in bar to any Action, together 

 with other Pleas, and if the Jury shall find the amends sufficient they 

 shall give a verdict for the Defendant, and in such case, or in case the 

 Plaintiff shall become non-suit, or shall discontinue his Action, or 

 Judgment shall be given for the Defendant upon demurrer, then 

 such Defendant shall be entitled to the like costs as he would have 

 been entitled to in case he had pleaded the general issue only: Pro- 

 vided always, that it shall be lawful for such Defendant, by leave 

 of the Court where such Action shall be brought, at any time before 

 or after issue joined, to pay money into Court as in other Actions. 



XV. And be it further enacted, That in any such Action, if the 

 Judge or Court before whom such Action shall be 'tried, shall certify 

 upon the record that the Defendant or Defendants in such Action 

 acted upon probable cause, then the Plaintiff in such Action shall 

 not be entitled to more than Two Pence damages, nor to any costs of 

 Suit. 



XVI. And be it further enacted, That all Actions or Suits for the 

 recovery of any of the penalties of forfeitures imposed by this Act, 

 may be commenced or prosecuted at any time within three years 

 after the offence committed, by reason whereof such penalty of 

 forfeiture shall be incurred, any law, usage or custom, to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding. 



XVII. And be it further enacted, That no appeal shall be prose- 

 cuted from any decree or sentence of any of His Majesty's Courts 

 in this Province, touching any penalty or forfeiture imposed by this 

 Act, unless the Inhibition shall be applied for and decreed within 

 twelve months from the time when such decree or sentence was 

 pronounced. 



XVIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not go into 

 force or be of any effect until His Majesty's assent shall be signified 

 thereto, and an order made by His Majesty, in Council, that the 

 clauses and provisions of this Act shall be the rules, regulations and 

 restrictions, respecting the Fisheries on the Coasts, Bays, Creeks or 

 Harbours, of the Province of Nova-Scotia. 



No. 74. 1836, March 21: Extract from Statute of Lower Canada, 

 6 William. IV, cap. 57. 



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



Gaspe 1 . 



[21st March, 1836.1 



Whereas the Fisheries in the Inferior District of Gaspe 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 



See British order in council of July 6, 1836, Appendix, p. 571. 



