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coast of this Colony or its dependencies, or any of the bays, harbors 

 or other places therein, or remove, let loose, or take any fish from 

 such seine or net. 



9. No person shall, between the tenth day of May and the twen- 

 tieth day of October in any year, haul, catch or take herrings or other 

 bait for exportation within one mile measured by the shore or across 

 the water of any settlement situate between Cape Chapeau Rouge and 

 Point Enragee, near Cape Ray, under a penalty of two hundred dollars ; 

 and any such person so hauling, catching or taking within the said 

 limits may be examined on oath by a Justice, Officer of Customs, or 

 person commissioned for the purpose, as to whether the herrings or 

 other bait are intended for exportation or otherwise, and, on refusal 

 to answer, or answering untruly, such person shall, on conviction, be 

 subject to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars. 



10. No salmon shall be taken before the first day of May or after 

 the tenth day of September in any year: Provided that if the time 

 limited in this section shall be found to operate injuriously in any 

 part of this Colony, the Governor in Council may appoint any other 

 time or times, and such time or times shall be as binding upon all 

 persons as if specially mentioned herein. 



11. No person shall buy or sell, or have in his possession, salmon, 

 knowing the same to have been taken contrary to the provisions of 

 this chapter; and every salmon so taken, bought or sold, shall be 

 declared forfeited to the complainant by any Justice. 



12. No person shall, at any time, haul, catch or take squids, within, 

 or by means of any seine, bunt, or other such contrivances. 



13. No person shall, between the hours of twelve o'clock on Satur- 

 day night and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, take or catch, in any 

 manner whatever, or by any contrivance whatsoever, any herring, 

 caplin, squid, or any other bait fish, or set or put out any contrivance 

 whatsoever, for the purpose of taking or catching herring, caplin, 

 squid or other bait fish. 



14. It shall not be lawful for any person to manufacture into ma- 

 nure or into any article to be used as manure, either by machinery or 

 by artificial chemical process, or by the use of both, any caplin, 

 herring, squid, or other fish used as bait in the prosecution of the 

 fisheries of this Colony and its dependencies. Every person who 

 shall violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to a pen- 

 alty of five hundred dollars for each offence. 



15. It shall not be lawful for any person to throw overboard or 

 deposit upon the fishing grounds or ledges, on or near the coasts of 

 this Colony and its dependencies, any heads, entrails, bones or offal 

 of the cod-fish. Every person who shall violate the provisions of 

 this section shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding two hundred 

 dollars, or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not 

 exceeding sixty days for each offence. 



16. No person shall, upon the coasts of this Colony or its dependen- 

 cies, use, for the purpose of taking cod-fish, any trap, the walls or 

 sides of which consisted at its original construction of meshes less 

 than four inches, and no netting for alterations or repairs of cod- 

 traps shall be less than four inches. 



17. No cod-trap shall be set on any of the fishing grounds of this 

 Colony or its dependencies at a less distance than eighty fathoms 

 from the nearest point of any cod-trap previously set, nor at a less 



