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said, from any vessel employed by the Government by dipping a flag 

 from a mast-head or peak three times or firing a gun, it shall be the 

 duty of the owner, master or person managing or controlling such 

 vessel so signalled to heave-to such vessel until such justice, sub- 

 collector, preventive officer, fishery warden, constable or commissioner, 

 shall have boarded and examined such last-named vessel, and in 

 case of such master, owner, or person managing or controlling as 

 aforesaid such last-named vessel omitting so to heave-to, or to afford 

 facilities for such justice, sub-collector, preventive officer, fishery 

 warden, constable or commissioner boarding or examining such vessel, 

 he shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars, or in default 

 of payment, to imprisonment for a period of three months. The 

 master of any vessel who shall refuse to obey or unreasonably delay 

 in obeying such signal may be arrested and brought before a justice 

 of the peace, and his vessel may be seized and held by any such justice, 

 sub-collector, preventive officer, fishery warden, constable or com- 

 missioner until an adjudication shall have taken place upon a com- 

 plaint hereunder. 



13. Any person found hauling, catching, taking, purchasing, sell- 

 ing, shipping, or conveying bait fishes, or any person having such 

 bait fishes in his possession, or the master, owner or crew of any boat 

 or vessel on board of which any bait fishes may be found, may be 

 examined on oath by a justice of the peace, sub-collector, preventive 

 officer, fishery warden or commissioner, specially appointed, as to the 

 quantity and kind of bait fishes in his possession or on board of 

 such boat or vessel, the purpose for which such bait fishes are in- 

 tended to be used or as to the place to which such bait fishes are 

 intended to be conveyed or exported, and upon his refusing to answer, 

 or answering untruly, such justice, sub-collector, preventive officer, 

 fishery warden or commissioner may seize the boat or vessel on board 

 of which such bait fishes shall have been hauled or caught or put, 

 kept, shipped, carried, conveyed or exported, or on board of which 

 the same may have been found, her tackle, apparel, furniture and 

 outfit and the said bait fishes so found as aforesaid, and may hold 

 the same until an adjudication shall have been had upon a complaint 

 in relation to such alleged offences. 



14. Any person who shall be guilty of any breach or violation of, or 

 non-compliance with these rules and regulations, or of the terms and 

 conditions of any license granted hereunder, or of aiding, abetting, 

 or assisting in or procuring any such breach, violation or non-compli- 

 ance, shallbe liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, 

 or in the alternative or in default of payment of such penalty to 

 imprisonment not exceeding six months. 



15. In addition to any penalty or punishment provided by these 

 rules, the vessel in, on board of, or in respect of which any breach or 

 violation of, or non-compliance with such rules has taken place, and 

 any boats, seines, nets, implements and appliances used in. upon or 

 in connection with such breach, violation, or non-compliance, snail be 

 liable to confiscation, and any license, the terms of which may have 

 been violated, shall be forfeited. 



16. All offences under these rules and all penalties and forfeitures 

 thereby provided shall be prosecuted and imposed in a summary 

 manner before any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace. 



