1290 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



5. The said license shall be in the following form, viz.: 



Newfoundland, 



District of 



By virtue of the power vested in me under the rules and regulations respect- 

 ing the lobster fishery, made in pursuance to an Act passed in the sixty-fist 

 year of the reign of Her late Majesty, entitled "An Act respecting the Depart- 

 ment of Marine and Fisheries," I, of , do hereby license , 

 residing at , in the district of , to engage in the business 

 of canning lobsters at the factory or plant situate at , in the district 

 of for the current year from the date hereof, subject to the rules 

 and regulations thereof. 



Given under my hand, at , in the district of , this 



day of , A. D. 190 . 



6. (As amended.) No person shall kill. take, catch, sell, or can 

 any lobsters on that portion of the coast from Cape Race to Cape 

 Ray, before the 20th day of April, or after the 24th day of July; nor 

 from Cape Ray to Cape Gregory before the 20th day of April or 

 after the 31st day of July; nor from Cape Gregory to Flower's Cove 

 before the 10th day of May or after the 20th day of August; nor 

 from Cape Race north to Cape John before the 10th day of May 

 or after the 1st day of August; nor from Cape John to Flower's 

 Cove before the 1st day of May OH after the 10th day of August, in 

 any year. 



7. No trap or trap-mooring shall be placed in the waters on any 

 lobster ground for more than three days before the dates respectively 

 prescribed as above for the commencement of the fishing season, and 

 all traps and moorings shall be taken up within three days after the 

 dates respectively prescribed as above for the closing of the fishery 

 season. 



8. The two undermost laths on each side of every lobster trap used 

 in the fisheries of Newfoundland shall be placed not less than one 

 and one-half inches apart. 



9. (As amended.) No person shall spear or hook lobsters or use 

 hand-traps in the waters of this colony, nor shall any person purchase, 

 can. or in any way use or export lobsters so taken. 



10. The owner or manager of every canning factory or plant shall 

 at the end of each season, and not later than ten days after the clos- 

 ing of the factory or plant, send in a return to the Marine and 

 Fisheries Department, showing the number of fishermen and smack- 

 men employed, the number of lobster traps used, the number of 

 persons of each sex employed in such factory or plant, and the 

 number of cases and of loosters packed during the season. Any 

 person failing to do this, or making a false return, shall be guilty 

 of a violation of these rules. 



11. It shall be the duty of all justices, sub-collectors, fishery war- 

 dens, preventive officers and constables, to aid in carrying out these 

 rules and regulations, and the owner or manager of any lobster 

 canning factory or plant shall, on demand, produce his license to 

 any justice, fishery warden, sub-collector, preventive officer or con- 

 stable, and upon his refusing to produce such license, or upon 



761 his obstructing such officer in the discharge of his duty, the 

 said owner or manager shall be held to be guilty of a violation 

 of these rules. 



12. (Cancelled.) 



13. (Cancelled.) 



