STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1071 



No. 89. 1891, July 10: Statute of Canada. 54 and 55 Viet., Cap. 4.. 

 An Act respecting Fishing Vessels of the United States of America. 



[Assented to 10th July, 1891.} 



Whereas the "Act respecting Fishing Vessels of the United States 

 of America" assented to on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand 

 eight hundred and ninety, expired on the thirty-first day of Decem- 

 ber, one thousand eight hundred and ninety ; and whereas it is expe- 

 dient to continue, for the present season, the privileges accorded 

 United States fishing vessels under the provisions of that Act : There 1 - 

 fore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 



1. The Governor in Council may authorize the issue of licences 

 to United States fishing vessels, enabling them to enter any port on 

 the Atlantic Coast of the Dominion of Canada, during the calendar 

 year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, for the following 

 purposes : 



(a.) The purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines and all other supplies 

 and outfits ; 



(&.) The transhipment of catch and the shipping of crews: 



2. The fee for such licenses shall be one dollar and fifty cents per 

 ton register, and the terms and conditions thereof shall be determined 

 by the Governor in Council. 



2. All licenses issued by the Government of Newfoundland, grant- 

 ing to United States fishing vessels the privilege of entering the ports 

 of Newfoundland for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, shall be 

 valid in Canadian ports, whenever licenses issued by the Dominion 

 of Canada to such vessels are valid for the said purposes in the ports 

 of Newfoundland. 



635 No. 90. 1891, August 28: Statute of Canada, 54 and 55 Viet., 



Cap. 43. 



An Act further to amend " The Fisheries Act," chapter ninety-five of the Revised 



Statutes. 



[Assented to 28th August, 1891.] 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 



1. Section fourteen of "The Fisheries Act " is hereby amended by 

 adding thereto the following sub-section : 



" 15. The use of purse seines for the catching of fish in any of the 

 waters of Canada is prohibited, under a penalty for each offence of 

 not less than fifty dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 

 together with the confiscation of the vessel, boat and apparatus used 

 in connection with such catching." 



2. Sub-section four of section eighteen of the said Act is hereby 

 repealed and the following substituted therefor : 



" 4. A moiety of every pecuniary penalty levied by virtue of this 

 Act shall belong to Her Majesty, and the other moiety shall be paid 

 to the prosecutor, together with costs taxed to him in respect thereof." 



