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ballast or rubbish, or shall moor any vessel at or within the said limits 

 other than that so selected and appointed, shall be guilty of a viola- 

 tion of these rules. 



44. No ballast or rubbish of any kind shall be thrown overboard 

 from any vessel or boat inside of a straight line drawn from Myn- 

 ter's Point to Bill Point, via Turnip's Cove, in Bay-du-Nord, For- 

 tune Bay. 



(a) No ballast or rubbish of any kind shall be thrown overboard 

 from any vessel or boat coming to Bay-du-Nord Brook, For- 

 tune Bay, inside of a straight line running across from 

 Farrel's Cove Point to the outside point at Yankee Cove, 

 provided that ballast from any vessel may be thrown under 

 the wharves in said places, should the owner of the same 

 consent thereto. 



(6) No vessel, craft or boat shall anchor, or remain at anchor, or 

 be moored anywhere in Bay d'East, Fortune Bay, for the 

 purpose of freezing herring, or of loading or of taking on 

 board fresh or frozen herring, or herring to be salted, in 

 bulk or in barrels, provided that any vessel, craft or boat 

 coming to Bay d'East in the spring of the year, after the 

 ice has disappeared, for fresh or salted herrings, may be 

 allowed to anchor, dress or cure herrings inside or a straight 

 line drawn from Indian Point to North-west Point at the 

 mouth of North-west Brook. 



(c) All vessels, crafts or boats coming to Simms' Brook, or St. 



Keel's, in Fortune Bay, for frozen or salted herrings, shall 

 be moored fore and aft as close to land as they can safely 

 float. 



(d) No vessel shall anchor for the purpose of taking and icing 



down caplin bait in the harbor of Cape Broyle, in the dis- 

 trict of Ferryland, outside a line drawn from Admiral's 

 Head on the north side to Gentleman's Point on the south. 



45. No person shall throw any herring from any scaffold, vessel 

 or boat into the water; but all spoiled herrings, which cannot be dis- 

 posed of as an article of human food, or for bait purposes, shall be 

 carried to such places as the harbor and sanitary commissioners may 

 direct, and be used as manure. 



46. No person shall throw any ballast, sand or rubbish into 

 763 the water which herring^ are known to frequent, but all such 

 ballast, sand or rubbish shall be carried to such places as the 

 harbor and Sanitary Commissioners may direct. 



COD FISHERY. 



47. Upon the coast of Newfoundland and its dependencies no 

 person shall use, for the purpose of taking codfish, any kind of trap, 

 the walls or sides of which consist of meshes of less than three and a 

 half inches. The opening of any part of the walls of a cod-trap and 

 the lacing of any cod bag (or knitted twine of less than three and 

 one-half inch mesh) for the purpose of removing fish from the cod- 

 trap, shall be a violation of these rules; provided that it is permitted 

 to lace a cod-bag of anv size mesh to the head rope of a trap for the 

 immediate removal of fish, and for that purpose only. 



