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but the rights of parties in lands and privileges already granted shall 

 not be affected thereby. 



6. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the manage- 

 ment and. protection of the fisheries on the sea coast, or around any 

 island of the said coast between low water mark and three marine 

 miles, imposing no greater penalty thereby than fifteen pounds, nor 

 any larger imprisonment than ten days. The regulations shall be 

 published in the Royal Gazette. 



7. The Wardens of any County shall when necessary, mark out and 

 designate in proper positions " Gurry Grounds," putting up notices 

 thereof, describing their limits and position, in the several school 

 houses, and other most public places in the Parish where the said 

 gurry grounds are marked out, publishing the like notice in the Royal 

 Gazette ; and no person after such posting and publication shall cast 

 overboard from any boat or vessel the offal of fish into the waters at 

 or near the said Parish at any place except the said gurry grounds. 



8. In every dam built, or which may hereafter be built, across any 

 stream or river, except where fish may not resort, a proper and suit- 

 able fishway shall be made and kept, the Wardens having jurisdiction 

 determining the exception. 



9. No slabs, edgings, or other mill rubbish, sawdust excepted, shall 

 be allowed or put in any river or stream. 



10. No salmon shall be taken on the coast, nor in any of the bays, 

 rivers, or harbours, or in any fresh water stream or river, after the 

 thirty first day of August in any year, nor between sunset on any 

 Saturday night and sunrise on the following Monday morning, nor 

 in any place at any time by spearing between the thirty first day of 

 August in any year and the first day of April ensuing, nor shall any 

 person sell or offer for sale, or purchase, between the said last men- 

 tioned days, any salmon taken by spearing. 



11. Angling for salmon shall be permitted until the fifteenth day 

 of September in each year. 



12. Within the Parishes of Grand Manan, West Isles, Campo Bello, 

 Pennfield, and Saint George, in the County of Charlotte, no seine or 

 net shall be set across the mouth of any haven, river, creek, or har- 

 bour, nor in such place extending more than one third the distance 

 across the same, or be within forty fathoms of each other, nor shall 

 they be set within twenty fathoms of the shore at low water mark. 



13. Every fish weir in the Parishes named in the preceding Section, 

 dry at low water mark, or which in the opinion of the Wardens re- 

 quires a gate, shall have a gate therein of such width and in such 



position as they may determine. 



627 14. The Wardens and Overseers of the fisheries in the Par- 

 ishes named in Section 12, shall severally seize and remove any 

 net or obstruction whatever set or placed contrary to the provisions 

 of this Chapter, and after five days notice may sell the same, together 

 with any fish found therein, in some public place in the Parish where 

 the seizure is made. After deducting from the proceeds the charges 

 of seizure and sale, the residue shall be applied to the payment of any 

 penalty incurred under this Chapter, and any overplus to the Over- 

 seers of the Poor where the offence was committed. 



15. No herrings shall be taken between the fifteenth day of July 

 and the fifteenth of October in any year, on the spawning ground at 

 the southern head of Grand Manan, to commence at the eastern part 



