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erament, by dipping the ensign at the main peak three times, and 

 firing a gun, it s-nall be the duty of the owner, master or person manag- 

 ing or controlling such vessel so signalled, to heave to such 

 709 vessel until such Justice, Sub-Collector, Preventive Officer, 

 Fishery Warden, or Constable, shall have boarded and ex- 

 amined such last-named vessel ; and in case of such master, owner, or 

 person managing or controlling as aforesaid such last-named vessel, 

 omitting so to heave her to, or to afford facilities for such Justice, 

 Sub-Collector, Preventive Officer, Fishery Warden, or Constable, 

 boarding such vessel, or obstructing, such Justice, Sub- Collector, 

 Preventive Officer, Fishery Warden, or Constable, boarding or ex- 

 amining any such vessel, he shall be subject to a penalty of five hun- 

 dred dollars, to be recovered with costs in a summary manner before 

 a Justice of the Peace, and in case default shall be made in the pay- 

 ment of such penalty, such Justice shall issue his warrant and cause 

 such offender to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding thirty days. 

 VI. If any person shall feel himself aggrieved by any order or 

 judgment of such Justice under this Act, or under the said Chapter, 

 he shall have liberty to appeal to the Supreme Court in St. John's, 

 or on circuit, upon giving sufficient security for the due performance 

 of such order or judgment, if confirmed, and for the payment of all 

 costs, and to prosecute the said appeal. 



No. 123. 1882, May 20: Nmrfoundland Statute, 45 Viet., Cap. 21. 

 An Act to amend the Law relating to Coast and Elver Fisheries. 



[Passed 20th May, 1882.] 



Section. 



1. Size of mesh in Traps. 



2. Nets to capture Salmon or Trout in 



Rivers and Lakes prohibited for 

 two years. 



Section. 



3. Section 1, Chapter 102, Consolidated 



Statutes, as to Labrador, repealed. 



4. Penalties. 



BE it Enacted by the Administrator of the Government, Council 

 and Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows : 



I. From and after the First day of January, Eighteen Hundred 

 and Eighty-five, no person shall, upon the coasts of this Island or its 

 Dependencies, use, for the purpose of taking Codfish, any Trap, the 

 walls or sides of which consist of meshes of less than four inches. 



II. No person shall, at any time within the period of Two Years 

 from the First day of January, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-three, 

 set or permit to remain set, or to remain in the water, any Net or 

 other contrivance whatsoever for the capture or taking of Salmon or 

 Trout, in any River, Stream, Lake or Watercourse, in this Island and 

 its Dependencies, and after the expiration of the said Two Years, 

 no person shall, at any season between sunset on Friday and sunrise 

 on the following Monday, set or permit to remain set, or to remain 

 in the water, any net or other contrivance whatsoever for the capture 

 or taking of Salmon or Trout, in any River, Stream, Lake or Water- 

 course, in this Island and its Dependencies. This Section shall not 

 apply to the following Rivers, that is to say : the Exploits, Humber, 

 Little Bay and Gander Rivers. 



