STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1079 



40. Any label or stamp prescribed by the Minister upon any empty 

 case or package, shall be entirely obliterated and destroyed within 

 seven days after the commencement of the close season. 



2. Whenever any labelled or stamped case or package, containing 

 canned or cured lobsters, is opened or emptied, the label or stamp 

 thereon shall be entirely obliterated and destroyed by the person in 

 whose hands the same is, unless such case or package is opened or 

 emptied for the purpose of testing or repacking the canned or cured 

 lobsters contained therein, the burden of proof of which shall be on 

 the owner or packer of such package or case. 58-59 V., c. 28, s. 1. 



41. The manager or proprietor of every lobster factory or canning 

 establishment shall, on demand, produce his license to any fishery 

 officer. 58-59 V., c. 28, s. 1. 



42. The manager or owner of every lobster factory or canning es- 

 tablishment shall, on the request of any person authorized or em- 

 ployed by the Minister to hatch lobsters, as far as possible and with 

 due care, take from and keep, in such manner as is from time to time 

 prescribed by the Minister, all eggs attached to lobsters brought to 

 such factory or canning establishment, and deliver such eggs to a 

 person authorized by the Minister to receive them. 58-59 V.,c. 28, s. 1. 







OTHER FISHERIES. 



43. Close seasons for bass, pike, pickerel (dore), maskinonge and 

 other fish, may be fixed by the Governor in Council to suit different 

 localities. R. S., c. 95, s. 11. 



POSSESSION OF FISH. 



44. No one shall, without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie 

 on him, buy, sell or possess any fish, or portion of any fish named in 

 this Act, caught or killed at a time or in a manner prohibited by law. 

 E. S., c. 95, s. 12. 



45. Every customs officer, excise officer, police officer or constable, 

 clerk of a market or other person in charge of any market-place in 

 any village, town or city, shall seize, and, upon view, confiscate to 

 his own proper use, any fish mentioned in this Act, caught or killed 

 during prohibited seasons, or which appears to have been killed by 

 unlawful means. 



2. Every such seizure and appropriation, with the date, place, and 

 circumstances thereof, shall together with the name, residence and 



calling of the person in whose possession such fish was found, 

 640 be d:ily reported to the fishery officer who has jurisdiction over 



the district within which such seizure, confiscation and appro- 

 priation took place. R. S., c. 95, s. 12. 



CONSTRUCTION OF FISH-WATS. 



46. Every dam, slide, or other obstruction across or in any stream 

 where the Minister determines it to be necessary for the public in- 

 terest that a fish-pass should exist, shall be provided by the owner or 

 occupier with a durable and efficient fish-way, which shall be main- 

 tained in practical and effective condition, in such place and of such 

 form and capacity as will admit of the passage of fish through the 

 same. 



