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fathoms from either bank on the strand, sea, stream, pond, lake or 

 estuary debouching into the sen. 



68. The Department of Marine and Fisheries may place caution 

 boards at a greater distance than fifty fathoms from the points of 

 debouching as aforesaid, wherever, in the opinion of the department, 

 geographical conditions may render the same necessary. The placing 

 of such boards at any such points shall be deemed to be prima facie 

 evidence of notice, and shall place the burden of proof, as to lack of 

 notice, upon the party charged with a breach of anything hereunder. 



69. No person shall, by spearing, hooking, sweeping, jigging, or 

 raking, or hauling, with any net or seine, take, or attempt to take, 

 any salmon, trout, or inland water fish within this Colony. 



70. The use of lime, explosives, or other deleterious compounds for 

 killing or catching fish of any description, shall at all times be pro- 

 hibited in all inland and coastal waters of this Colony. 



766 71. In every mill-dam, rack, or framework erected or built 

 across any pond, lake, river, brook or stream, where salmon and 

 trout have been known to enter, there shall be placed, subject to the 

 approval of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, a proper pass- 

 way or fish-ladder not less than four feet in width, capable of allow- 

 ing salmon or trout of any size to enter the waters above. 



72. Any logs or timber of any description which may be placed so 

 as to impede the passage of salmon or trout in a pond, river, lake, 

 stream, estuary or water-course, shall be instantly removed; and no 

 saw-dust or mill rubbish of any kind shall be cast into any pond, lake, 

 estuary, river, brook, stream or water-course. 



73. No net shall be moored or set near any part of the coast of this 

 Colony or its dependencies for the purpose of taking salmon nearer 

 to any other salmon net previously set or moored for a like purpose 

 than one hundred yards for a single net, or three hundred yards for 

 a double net or fleet of nets. 



74. No person shall catch, kill, or take any salmon or trout in any 

 river, brook, stream, pond or lake in Newfoundland, between the 15th 

 clay of September in any year, and the 15th day of January in the 

 next following year: Provided that this section shall not apply to 

 R. A. Brehm and others who have been granted certain rights under 

 the provision of Section 19 of the Act passed in the 29th year of Her 

 late Majesty, entitled, "The Crown Lands' Act of 1884," as lessees of 

 Murray and Butler ponds, and the streams running into and out of 

 the same for one mile. 



75. No net shall be used for taking salmon within the three-mile 

 limit of this Island, the mokes, meshes or scales of which shall be less 

 than five inches. 



76. No person shall buy or ^ell, or have in his possession, any salmon 

 or trout which have been taken contrary to the provisions of these 

 rules, and ever} 7 salmon or trout so taken, bought or sold, may be 

 declared forfeited to the complainant by any Justice. 



GENERAL. 



77. The barring of caplin by seines is prohibited in the waters of 

 Newfoundland, and in every case when a seine is used it shall be 

 hauled and tucked forthwith into the boat or boats, and not from the 

 shore. No person shall, at any time, in the waters of Newfoundland, 



