STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1167 



good Order and Peace with the Savages (upon which the success of 

 His Majesty's intentions for opening this extensive Field of Com- 

 merce to His Subjects wholly depends) I therefore hereby Order and 

 direct, that the following Rules, Orders, and Regulations, shall be 

 strictly observed, on all the Coast of Labrador within my Govern- 

 ment, subject to such alterations as may be found necessary for the 

 aforementioned purposes. 



1st. That no inhabitant of Newfoundland, no By Boat-keeper, 

 nor any Person from any of the Colonies, shall on any pretence what- 

 ever go to the Coast of Labrador (except Whale Fishers within the 

 Gulph of St. Lawrence from the Colonies as allowed by my order 

 of the 8th of April last) and if any such are found there, they shall 

 be corporally punished for the first offence, and the second time their 

 Boats shall be seized for the Publick use of British ship Fishers upon 

 that Coast. 



2d. That no Person what ever shall resort to Labrador to 



691 Fish or Trade but ship Fishers, Annually arriving from His 



Majesty's Dominions in Europe, lawfully cleared out as ship 



Fishers, carrying at least 21 men, all engaged to return after the 



Season is over to the King's Dominions in Europe. 



3d. That all the Rules, Orders and Regulations (respecting British 

 Ship Fishers) ordained by that Excellent Act of the 10th and llth of 

 Wimam the 3d. intitled an Act for the Encouragement of the Trade 

 and Fishery of Newfoundland shall be strictly observed on the Coast 

 of Labrador. 



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6th. All British Fishing ships as well as the Admirals of the Har- 

 bours during the Summer's Fishery for Cod, that is, from the time 

 of their arrival, to the Time of their departure, may also carry on 

 the Whale Fishery, this the early arriving Ships, may do with great 

 advantage there being abundance of Whales on the Coast in the 

 Months of April, May and June. Given under my hand on board 

 His Majesty's Ship Guernsey in Pitt's Harbour within Chateau Bay 

 on the Coast of Labrador this 28th day of August 1765. 



HUGH PALLISSER. 



By Command of His Excellency. 



Endorsed. No. 7. Regulations Establishing a British Fishery 

 for Cod, Whale, Seals, and Salmon on the Coast of Labrador. 1765. 



No. 101. 1766, August 1: Proclamation ~by Hugh Pallisser Governor 



of Newfoundland. 



By His Excellency Hugh Pallisser Governor and Commander in Chief in and 

 over the Island of Newfoundland, the Coast of Labrador, and of all the 

 Territories dependent thereon. 



Whereas a great many Vessels from His Majesty's Plantations, 

 Employed in the Whale Fishery, resort to that part of the Gulph of 

 St. Lawrence, and the Coast of Labrador, which is within this Gov- 

 ernment, and as I have been informed, that some Apprehensions have 

 arisen amongst them, that, by the Regulations made by me relating 

 to the different Fisheries in those parts, they are wholly Precluded 

 from that Coast; 



