STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1237 



(2.) Beacons, buoys, lights and light-houses, and their maintenance. 

 (3.) Signals and signal-stations, steamers and vessels belonging to 



the Government of the Colony. 

 (4.) Harbors, ports and harbor-masters; piers, wharves, and St. 



John's Dry Dock. 



(5.) Classification of vessels, and examination and granting cer- 

 tificates of masters and mates and others in the merchant 

 service. 

 (6.) Shipping masters and shipping officers; care of distressed 



seamen. 



(7.) Ship-building and inspection of steamers and vessels. 

 (8.) Wreck commissioners, and enquiries into causes of shipwrecks, 

 and generally such matters as refer to the marine and navi- 

 gation of the Colony and its dependencies. 



4. The Department of Marine and Fisheries shall administer all 

 laws relating to the subject of sea, coast, and inland fisheries, and 

 the management, regulation and protection thereof, and all matters 

 and things relating thereto, or assigned by the Governor in Council 



to the said department. 



732 5. The Minister shall make and submit to the Governor 

 annual report on all the branches of the department under his 

 control, to be laid before both Houses of the Legislature within fifteen 

 days from the commencement of each Session, showing the state of 

 each branch and the amount received and expended in respect thereof, 

 with such further information as is requisite. 



6. The Governor in Council may appoint a Board to be called " The 

 Fisheries Board," of which the Minister of Marine and Fisheries 

 shall be president. 



7. The Fisheries Board shall consist of seven members, of whom 

 the President, or in his absence, the Deputy Head of the Department 

 and three members, shall constitute a quorum. 



8. The powers, duties, and functions of the said Board shall be, 

 to make enquiries and researches upon and in relation to all matters 

 pertaining to the preservation, maintenance, improvement and devel- 

 opment of the fisheries, and the trade, commerce and interests of the 

 Colony, so far as the same are connected with or relate to the fisheries 

 and fishery questions j to devise, organize and maintain such methods 

 of collecting, preserving and diffusing such knowledge and informa- 

 tion as they may consider best adapted to the attainment of such 

 subjects. 



9. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regula- 

 tions for the better management and regulation of the sea, coast, and 

 inland fisheries, to prevent or remedy the obstruction and pollution 

 of streams, to regulate and prevent fishing, to prohibit the destruc- 

 tion of fish, and to forbid fishing except under authority of leases or 

 licenses; which regulations shall have the same force and effect as 

 if herein enacted, and may fix such modes, times or places as are 

 deemed by the Governor in Council adapted to different localities, 

 or otherwise expedient. 



(2.) Such regulations shall take effect from the date therein pre- 

 scribed and after publication thereof in the Royal Gazette. 



(3.) Every offence against any regulation made under this Act may 

 be stated as in violation of this Act. 



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