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harbors of this Island, or if the master of the said vessel shall have 

 engaged or attempted to engage any person to form part of the crew 

 of the said vessel in any port, or on any part of the coasts of this 

 Island, without a license therefor in writing first granted to any such 

 vessel under the provisions of this Act, or has entered such waters 

 for any purpose not permitted by treaty, convention or act of the 

 Legislature, for the time being in force, such vessel and the tackle, 

 rigging, apparel, furniture, stores and cargo thereorf shall be forfeited. 



4. All goods and vessels and the tackle, rigging, apparel, furni- 

 ture, stores and cargo thereof, liable to forfeiture under this Act, may 

 be seized and secured by any officer or person mentioned in the second 

 section of this Act, and every person opposing any officer or person 

 in the execution of his duty under this Act, or aiding or abetting any 

 other person in such opposition, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars. 



5. In any prosecution under this Act, the presence on board of 

 any foreign fishing vessel, in any port of this Island, or within 

 British waters aforesaid, of any caplin, squid, or other bait fishes, of 

 ice, lines, seines or other outfits or supplies for the fishery, shall be 

 prima facie evidence of the purchase of the said bait fishes and outfits 

 within such port or waters, and the refusal or failure to produce a 

 license upon being called upon so to do, shall be prima facie evidence 

 of the purchase of bait, ice, lines, seines or other supplies or outfits 

 for the fishery without a license. 



6. All offenders against the provisions of this Act may be prose- 

 cuted and convicted, and all fines, forfeitures, penalties and other 

 punishments imposed, recovered, and made, in a summary manner, 

 before a Stipendary Magistrate. For the purposes of this Act all 

 Stipendiary Magistrates shall be deemed to be Stipendiary Magis- 

 trates for the Colony, and may exercise the jurisdiction given by this 

 Act in any part of the Colony. 



7. If any person convicted under this Act shall feel himself 

 aggrieved by such conviction, he may appeal therefrom to the then 

 next sitting of Her Majesty's Supreme Court, holden in or nearest 

 the place where such conviction shall have been had, or in St. John's: 

 Provided notice of such appeal and of the cause and matter thereof 

 be given to the convicting Magistrate in writing, within seven days 

 next after such conviction, and the party desiring to appeal shall 

 also, within fourteen days after such notice, give and enter into 

 recognizance with two approved sureties before the convicting Mag- 

 istrates conditioned for the appearance of the person convicted at 

 such next sitting of the Supreme Court, on the first day of such 

 731 sitting, for the prosecution of the appeal with effect and with- 

 out delay, to abide the judgment of the Court thereon, and for 

 the delivery and surrender of any vessel or other property ordered to 

 be confiscated, and to pay such costs as the Court may award. 



8. No proceeding or conviction by, nor order of, any Magistrate 

 or other officer under this Act, shall be quashed or set aside for any 

 informality, provided the same shall be substantially in accordance 

 with the intent and meaning of this Act. 



9. Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights and privileges granted 

 by treaty to the subjects of any state in amity with Her Majesty. 



10. Any foreign fishing vessel may enter any port of entry of this 

 island for the purpose 01 applying for a license under the provisions 



