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44. Any person wilfully injuring or destroying the gear, nets, 

 seines or other contrivances of any person, or so wilfully and ille- 

 gally interfering with and destroying the catch of any such person, 

 shall be guilty of an offence against these rules, and shall, on convic- 

 tion, be subject to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



45. In case fishing gear becomes so entangled that it cannot be 

 cleared without injury, such gear may be taken on shore, and the 

 owners thereof shall aid and assist in the clearing of the same with 

 &s little injury as possible to the property of each other. 



46. In case any person is compelled to cut the rope of another in 

 getting his gear out of the water, such rope shall be securely tied 

 Before the same is dropped back into the water. 



47. No owner or captain of a vessel shall, during the herring 

 fishery season at Sound Island, anchor or permit to remain at anchor, 

 in any cove or place where herring are in the habit of frequenting or 

 are being caught, any vessel ; and all vessels coming to Sound Island 

 for the purpose of catching or purchasing herring shall remain at 

 anchor below the north-eastern point of Sound Island. 



48. The Fisheries' Commission may appoint a Board of Sanitary 

 Commissioners for Sound Island, consisting of three inhabitants of 

 that place, whose duties shall be to select suitable places where spoiled 

 herring may be disposed of without injury to the health of the 

 inhabitants. 



49. The foregoing rules, numbered from 29, inclusive, to 48, in- 

 clusive, shall be construed to apply to Sound Island only, in Pla- 

 centia Bay. 



50. No herring shall be taken at any time, or in any waters of 

 this Colony, for the purpose of being used as manure. 



51. No person shall catch, take or bar herring in a seine, net or 

 other contrivance, between the hours of twelve crclock on Saturday 

 night and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, and no nets or other con- 

 trivances (except seines containing herring which shall have been 

 barred before twelve o'clock on Saturday night) shall be allowed to 

 be set or remain in the water during the aforesaid period, under a 

 penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



52. No person shall place herring on " scaffold " in warm or " soft " 

 weather. 



53. No person shall catch or take herring of which there is no 

 immediate prospect of sale in fresh or frozen condition, or unless for 

 the purpose of being cured in salt, or for bait purposes! 



54. No person shall throw any herring from any scaffold, vessel 

 or boat, into the water. 



55. No person shall throw any ballast, sand or rubbish into the 

 \\ aters where herring are known to frequent, but all spoiled herring, 

 ballast, sand or rubbish, shall be carried to such places as the Sani- 

 tary Commissioners may direct. 



56. A barrel of green herring shall contain thirty-two imperial 

 gallons. 



57. The standard measure for the sale of frozen herring shall be 

 one imperial bushel. 



58. Where, in these rules, no penalty is prescribed for the breach 

 of any rule, the person violating me same shall be subject to a penalty 

 not exceeding one hundred dolfars. 



