1094 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



PROCEDURE. 



14. All suits and proceedings for the forfeiture or sale of any ship, 

 vessel or boat, or for the recovery and enforcement of any penalty 



imposed by reason of, 



648 (a) sucn ship, vessel, or boat not bringing to when required 



so to do in the King's name, as by this Act provided ; 

 or, 



(5) the throwing overboard, staving or destroying by any person 

 on board any such ship, vessel, or boat during chase by any 

 Government cruiser or vessel, or before such ship, vessel, 

 or boat brings to, after being required so to do in the King's 

 name, of any part of her cargo to prevent seizure ; 

 may, in addition to any other remedy provided by law, be com- 

 menced and prosecuted under the procedure provided by the Cus- 

 toms Act, in so far as the same is applicable. 



2. The proceeds of such penalties and forfeitures shall be dealt 

 with in the same manner as the proceeds of penalties and forfeitures 

 under the laws relating to the Customs. 61 V., c. 38, s. 4. 



15. All goods, ships, vessels and boats, and the tackel, rigging, ap- 

 parel, furniture, stores and cargo liable to seizure or forfeiture under 

 this Act, may be seized and secured by any of the officers or persons 

 hereinbefore authorized to go on board 01, search or pursue a ship, 

 vessel or boat. R. S., c. 94, s. 4. 



16. All goods, ships, vessels and boats, and the tackle, rigging, 

 apparel, furniture, stores and cargo seized as liable to forfeiture un- 

 der this Act, shall be forthwith delivered into the custody of such 

 fishery officer, or Customs officer, or other person, as the Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, from time to time, directs, or shall be retained 

 by the officer making the seizure in his own custody, if so directed 

 by the Minister; and, in either case, shall be secured and kept as 

 other goods, ships, vessels and boats, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, 

 furniture, stores and cargo seized are directed by the laws in force 

 in the province in which the seizure is made, to be secured and kept. 

 R. S., c. 94, s. 5. 



17. All goods, vessels and boats, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, 

 furniture, stores and cargo condemned as forfeited under this Act, 

 shall, under regulations made from time to time by the Governor in 

 Council, be sold by public auction by direction of the officer who 

 has the custody thereof: Provided tnat the Governor in Council may 

 direct that any goods, vessels or boats and the tackle, rigging, apparel, 

 furniture, stores ana cargo seized and forfeited shall be destroyed 

 or be reserved for the public service. 



2. The proceeds of every such sale shall be subject to the control 

 of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who shall first pay thereout 

 all necessary costs and expenses of custody and sale; and the Gov- 

 ernor in Council may from time to time apportion three-fourths or 

 less of the net remainder among the officers and crew of anv of His 

 Majesty's ships or Canadian Government vessels from on board of 

 which the seizure was made as he thinks right, but he shall reserve 

 to the Crown and pay over to the Minister of Finance at least one- 

 fourth of such net Remainder to form part of the Consolidated Rev- 

 enue Fund of Canaraa. R. S., c, 94, s. 6. 



