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9. The master of any vessel who conveys any person resident in the 

 Colony outside the waters of this Colony, for the purpose of enabling 

 such person to be engaged on board any foreign fishing vessel, shall 



be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 

 759 10. All offenders against the provisions of this Act may be 



prosecuted and convicted, and all fines, forfeitures, penult ir-. 

 and other punishments imposed, recovered and made in a summary 

 manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate; and any vessel, and the 

 tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, stores and cargo thereof, liable to 

 forfeiture under the provisions of this Act, may be sued for, pros- 

 ecuted, recovered and condemned in a summary manner before a 

 Stipendiary Magistrate in a proceeding against the master or other 

 person in charge of such vessel. 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. 



11. If any person convicted under this Act shall feel himself ag- 

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

 next sitting of His 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 re- 

 cognizance, with two approved sureties, before the convicting magis- 

 trate, conditioned for the appearance of the person convicted at such 

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

 for the prosecution of the appeal with effect and without 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. 



12. Iso 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. 



13. All foreign fishing vessels exercising rights under any Treaty 

 or Convention shall be amenable to all the laws of the Colony not 

 inconsistent with any such rights under treaty or convention. 



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

 by treaty to the subjects of any State in amity with His Majesty ; and 

 sections 1 and 4 hereof shall not be held to apply to any foreign 

 fishing vessels resorting to the waters of this Colony for the exercise 

 of treaty rights. 



15. The Governor in Council may at any time by proclamation sus- 

 pend or limit the operation of this Act, as to the whole Act or any 

 part thereof, and in relation to the whole Colony, or any district 

 or parts thereof, and as to all or any classes of persons, and for any 

 period as shall oe expedient and as may be declared in such procla- 

 mation. 



16. In this Act the word " vessel " shall include any boat or ship, 

 registered or not registered, jack, skiff, punt, or launch, whether pro- 

 pelled by sails, oars or steam. 



17. The Act 5 Ed. VII. , cap 4, entitled "An Act respecting Foreign 

 Fishing Vessels," is hereby repealed. 



