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12. No person shall enter a claim to any thing seized under this 

 Act until security has been given in a penalty not exceeding two 

 hundred and forty dollars to answer and pay costs occasioned by 

 such claim ; and in default of such security the things seized shall be 

 adjudged forfeited, and shall be condemned. 



13. No Writ shall be sued out against any officer or other person 

 authorized to seize under this Act for any thing done under this Act, 

 until one month after notice in writing delivered to him or left at his 

 usual place of abode by the person intending to sue out such Writ, 



his attorney or agent; in which notice shall be contained the 

 630 cause of action, the name and place of abode of the person who 



is to bring the action, and of his Attorney or Agent; and no 

 evidence of any cause of action shall be produced except such as shall 

 be contained in such notice. 



14. Every such action shall be brought within three months after 

 the cause thereof has arisen. 



15. If on any information or suit brought to trial under this Act 

 on account of any seizure, judgment shall be given for the claimant, 

 and the Judge or Court shall certify on the record that there was 

 probable cause of seizure, the claimant shall not recover costs, nor 

 shall the person who made the seizure be liable to any indictment or 

 suit on account thereof; and if any suit or prosecution be brought 

 against any person on account of any seizure under this Act and 

 judgment be given against him, and the Court or Judge shall certify 

 that there was probable cause for the seizure, then the Plaintiff, 

 besides the thing seized or its value, shall not recover more than three 

 and a half cents damages, nor any costs of suit, nor shall the De- 

 fendant be fined more than twenty cents. 



16. Any officer or person who has made a seizure under this Act 

 may, within one month after notice of action received, tender amends 

 to the party complaining, or to his Attorney or Agent, and may plead 

 such tender. 



17. All actions for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures imposed 

 by this Act must be commenced within three years after the offence 

 committed. 



18. No appeal shall be prosecuted from any decree, or sentence of 

 any Court touching any penalty or forfeiture imposed by this Act, 

 unless the inhibition be applied for and decreed within twelve months 

 from the decree or sentence being pronounced. 



19. In cases of seizure under this Act, the Governor in Council 

 may, by order, direct a stay of proceedings; and in cases of condem- 

 nation may relieve from the penalty in whole or in part, and on such 

 terms as may be deemed right. 



20. The several provisions of this Act shall apply to any foreign 

 ship, vessel or boat in or upon the Inland Waters of Canada"; and the 

 provisions hereinbefore contained in respect to any proceedings in a 

 court of Vice- Admiralty shall, in the case of any foreign ship, vessel 

 or boat, in or upon the Inland Waters of Canada, apply to, and any 

 penalty or forfeiture in respect thereof shall be prosecuted and 

 recovered in, one of the Superior Courts of the Province within which 

 such cause of prosecution may arise. 



21. Neither the ninety-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 

 Nova Scotia, (third series,) "Of the Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries" 

 nor the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Nova Scotia, passed 



