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sustained thereby. Nor shall any person or persons throw any fish 



futs, offals or gurry overboard, within the distance of six leagues 

 rom the shore and Islands of the Inferior District of Gaspe afore- 

 said, nor on any bank, under the penalty of twenty pounds current 

 money of this Province. 



IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no 

 person or persons shall cast anchor near the shore, or do any thing 

 within the aforesaid limits, so as to annoy or obstruct the hauling of 

 Seines, or to obstruct or prevent the setting of Nets, nor shall any 

 Nets, be set or placed so as to prevent or obstruct the hauling of 

 Seines, under the penalty of five pounds, current money of this 

 Province, for every such offence, exclusive of such damages as may 

 be recovered at law by the proprietor or proprietors of the Seines or 



Nets Avhich may be thereby injured or destroyed. 



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XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that 

 it shall be lawful for the several Grand Juries for the said Inferior 

 District of Gaspe, at their Genera] Sessions of the Peace, upon the 

 recommendation and with the concurrence of the Justices of the 

 Peace attending the Session, or a majority of them, to make for the 

 temporary and local regulation of the Fisheries in the said Inferior 

 District, such further rules and regulations as to them shall appear 

 most expedient for the general welfare and advantage of the said 

 Fisheries, not being contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act. 



XXIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority 

 aforesaid, that no rule or regulation that may be so as aforesaid made, 

 shall have force or effect until the same shall have been approved 

 and sanctioned by the Provincial Court in and for the Inferior Dis- 

 trict of Gaspe, duly notified in the Quebec Gazette, * * * 



No. 15. 1838, March 29: Statute of Nova Scotia, 1 Viet., Cap. 21. 

 An Act to amend the Act for the Support and Regulation of Light-houses. 



[Passed the 29th day of March, 1838.] 



Whereas, certain Vessels owned and registered in this Province, 

 partially employed in the Coasting Trade thereof, and which con- 

 sequently pay duty as Coasting Vessels, under the Act passed in the 

 fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the 

 Fourth, entitled, An Act for the Support and regulation of Light 

 houses, sometimes are engaged in Voyages to the Island of New- 

 foundland, when they are charged with duties upon their Tonnage, 

 as other Vessels than Coasting Vessels are charged, which creates a 

 greater expense than the Trade carried on in such Vessels can sustain. 

 And whereas, certain other vessels owned and registered as afore- 

 said, are advantageously employed in voyages from this Province to 

 certain Ports in the United States of America, between Mount Desert 

 and Cape Cod, which are also charged with Tonnage Duties under 

 the said Act, upon each voyage made, whereby such last mentioned 

 Vessels are also exposed to a greater outlay for such duties than 

 ought to be fairly charged upon the Trade carried on by them as 



