STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, OBDEBd, ETC. 



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717 No. 129. 1889, June 1: Newfoundland Statute, 52 Viet., 



Cap. 7. 



An Act to provide for the Formation of a Fisheries' Commission and for other 



purposes. 



Section. 



1. Respecting appointment of Com- 



missioners, their powers, duties, 

 &c. 



2. Appointment as Chairman. 



3. Board authorized to make rules. 



4. Executive Committee. 



5. To have management, &c. 



6. Quorum. 



7. Quarterly Meetings. 



8. Special Meeting. 



9. Quorum. 



10. Power to employ servants, &c. 



[Passed 1st June, 1889.] 



Section. 



11. Committee to keep record. 



12. Majority Vote. 



13. Power to appoint an Inspector. 



14. Inspector to have direction. 



15. Duties of Superintendent. 



16. Powers of Commission, &c. 



17. Vote of members relative to rules. 



18. Rules and Regulations to be laid 



on Table of Legislative Council 

 and House of Assembly. 



19. Report also to be laid on Table. 



Be it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and the 

 House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 



I. The Governor in Council may appoint a Board consisting of 

 not less than twenty Commissioners, which Board shall be called a 

 Fisheries Commission, hereafter called the Commission. 



The powers, duties, and functions of the said Commission shall 

 be 



To make enquiries and researches upon and in relation to all 

 matters pertaining to the preservation, maintenance, improvement 

 and development of the fisheries, and the trade, commerce, and inter- 

 ests of the Colony, so far as the same are connected with or relate 

 to the fisheries and fishery questions. 



To devise, organise, and maintain such methods of collecting, 

 preserving, and diffusing such knowledge and information as they 

 may consider best adapted to the attainment of such objects. 



II. One of the members of the Commission shall be appointed 

 by the Governor in Council as Chairman of the Commission. 



III. The Commission shall have power to make rules and bye- 

 laws relating to the meetings and business of the Commission, sub- 

 ject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 



IV. There shall be an Executive Committee of the Board consist- 

 ing of seven members, of whom the Chairman shall be, ex officio, one, 

 and the remaining six shall be elected by the members of the Commis- 

 sion at each annual meeting. 



V. The Executive Committee shall, subject to the direction signi- 

 fied by the resolutions at general meetings, have the management of 

 the business and affairs of the Commission, except as hereinafter 

 provided. 



VI. Any four members of the Executive Committee shall be a 

 quorum for the transaction of business. 



VII. There shall be four quarterly meetings of the members of 

 the Commission every year upon such days in the months of Janu- 

 ary, April, July and October, as may be appointed by the Executive 

 Committee. The general meeting in January shall be the annual 

 meeting. 



