STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 



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such trial, and upon conviction of such offender, such Justice shall 

 issue his Warrant to cause such Seines, Nets, or other contrivances, 

 so illegally used, to be sold at Public Auction, or, where permitted 

 under the preceding Section of this Act, destroyed; and in default 

 of payment of such penalty as may be imposed, and costs, by the party 

 convicted, such Justice shall issue his Warrant to any Constable, or 

 other Person, to arrest and imprison such convicted offender for a 

 period not exceeding twenty days. 



VIII. All Penalties and Forfeitures, under this or the said re- 

 cited Act, and all proceeds thereof when recovered, shall be paid 

 to the party informing against and prosecuting such offender to 

 conviction. 



IX. No conviction or proceeding by any Justice or other Officer, 

 under this Act, shall be quashed or set aside for want of form, so long 

 as the same shall be substantially in accordance with the true intent 

 and meaning of this Act. 



X. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall in 

 any way affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by 

 Treaty to the Subjects or Citizens of any State or Power in amity 

 with Her Majesty. 



XI. The Ninth Section of the said recited Act for the protection 

 of the Salmon Fishery is hereby repealed. 



No. 115. 1872: Extract from Newfoundland Statute: Consolidated 

 Statutes, 1872, Title 17, Cap. 62. 



OF LIGHT DUES AND LIGHTHOUSES. 



Section. 



6. Application of money. 



7. Appropriation of surplus of light- 



house fund. 



8. Signal guns, bells or gongs. 



9. Tonnage dues on foreign vessels. 

 10. Expenses of surveys of such ves- 

 sels. 



Section 



1. Light dues. 



2. No greater sum than $115 shall be 



levied in any one year. 



3. Receiver General to appoint persons 



hi the outports to receive dues. 



4. Recovery of dues. 



5. Vessels not to be admitted to entry 



until light dues paid. 



1. A duty or rate of twenty-four cents per ton shall be levied and 

 paid upon every merchant ship or vessel according to its registered 

 tonnage which may enter any port or place within this colony, from 

 Cape Ray extending eastwardly to Cape Race, and thence north- 

 wardly to Cape John, other than coasting, sealing or fishing vessels 

 registered in this Colony said duty to be levied once in each year. 

 And there shall be levied and paid upon every registered decked 

 vessel of forty tons and upwards, registered in this colony, employed 

 in the sealing, fishing or coasting trade of this colony or the Labra- 

 dor, and which may enter at or clear from any of the ports or places 

 aforesaid, the duty or rate of twelve cents per ton, to be paid once 

 in each year, and upon every such vessel of less than forty tons the 

 sum of three dollars and forty-six cents per annum; and should any 

 of the above mentioned class of vessels engaged in the said fisheries, 

 paying the duty of twelve cents per ton herein imposed, proceed on 

 a foreign voyage, such vessel shall not be liable to any further rate 

 than the said twelve cents per ton in any one year during which 

 such vessel shall have been engaged in the said fisheries. 



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