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to appoint any other time or times, and which shall be as binding 

 on all persons as if specially mentioned therein. 



VIII. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 

 this Act in any respect shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Five Pounds, 

 to be recovered in a summary way before any Justice of the Peace; 

 and in default of payment thereof he shall be imprisoned in Gaol 

 for any period not exceeding Twenty Days. 



IX. The one half of all penalties recovered under this Act shall 



be paid to the party prosecuting the offender to conviction, and the 

 other half thereof to Her Majesty for the use of this Colony. 



ACT OF MABCH 27, 1862. 

 [26 Viet., Cap. 2.] 



An Act for the protection of the Herring and Salmon Fisheries on the Coast of 

 this Island, and for other purposes. (Passed 27th March, 1862.) 



WHEKEAS the Breed and Fry of Herrings frequenting the Coast 

 of this Island and the Labrador are often found to be greatly injured 

 and destroyed by the using of Seines and Nets of too small size or 

 mesh, and by other unwarrantable practices; and whereas complaints 

 have been preferred to the Local Government of alleged depredations 

 committed by the Fishermen frequenting these Coasts upon each 

 other: for remedy whereof, 



Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in /Session convened: 



I. That no person shall haul, catch, or take Herrings in any 

 Seine, on or near any part of the Coast of this Island, or of its De- 

 pendencies on the Coast of Labrador, or in any of the Bays, Harbors, 

 or any other places therein, at any time between the Twentieth day 

 of October and the Twelfth day of April in any year; and no per- 

 son shall, on or near the Coast of this Island or of its Dependencies 

 aforesaid on the Coast of Labrador, or in any of the Bays, Harbors, 

 or other places therein, at any time, use a Seine, or other contrivance, 

 for the catching and taking of Herrings, except by way of shooting, 

 and forthwith tucking and hauling the same : Provided, that nothing 

 herein contained shall prevent the taking of Herrings by Nets set in 

 the usual and customary manner, and not used for in-barring or en- 

 closing Herrings in any Cove, Inlet, or other place. 



II. No person shall, at any time between the Twentienth day of 

 December and the First Day of April in any year, haul, catch or take 

 any Herring, on or near the Coast of this Island or of its Dependen- 

 cies aforesaid on the Labrador, or in any of the Bays, Harbors, or 

 any other places therein, in any Net having the Meshes, Mokes, or 

 Scales, of less than Two Inches and Three-eighths of an Inch, at 

 least, from Knot to Knot, or having any false or double Bottom of 

 any description; nor shall any person put any Net, though of legal 

 size of mesh, upon or behind any other Net not of such size of mesh, 

 for the purpose of catching or taking the Fry of such Herring pass- 

 ing through any single Net of Two Inches and Three-eighths of an 

 Inch Mesh or Scale. 



