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III. No person shall wilfully remove, destroy or injure, any law- 

 ful Net or Seine the property of another, set or floating on or near 

 the Coasts of this Island or of its Dependencies aforesaid on the 

 Labrador, or in any of the Bays, Harbors, or other places therein, nor 

 remove, let loose, or take any Fish from or out 01 any such lawful 

 Net or Seine. 



IV. No Person shall, at any time between the Twentieth day of 

 April and the Twentieth day of October, haul, catch, or take any 

 Herring or other Bait for exportation, within One Mile of any Set- 

 tlement situate on that part of the Coast between Cape Chapeau 

 Rouge and Point Rosey. 



V. Any Person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 

 Act shall for every offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds; 

 and, in addition, all Seines, Nets, and other contrivances used or 

 employed in, about, or preparatory to the catching, hauling, taking, 

 or in-barring of any Herrings, in violation of any of the provisions 

 hereof, shall be liable to forfeiture, and the same may be seized at 

 once, by any Justice, Sub-Collector of Customs, Preventive Officer, 

 or Constable, on view or by virtue of a Warrant issued by such Jus- 

 tice, Sub-Collector, or Preventive Officer, on Oath to be administered 

 by any of them, and detained until the trial of the offender, when 

 they may be declared forfeited and ordered to be sold at Public 

 Auction. 



VI. And Whereas an Act was passed in the twenty-third year of 

 the Reign of Her present Majesty entitled "An Act for the Protec- 

 tion of the Salmon Fishery, and for other purposes ", whereby certain 

 Nets and Seines were forbidden to be used, and certain Weirs and 

 other erections and contrivances were prohibited from being erected 

 at certain times and under certain circumstances, in the said Act 

 declared : 



Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Justice, Sub- 

 Collector, Preventive Officer, or Constable aforesaid, on view, and for 

 any Constable or other Person by virtue of a Warrant to be issued as 

 aforesaid, to seize any Net or Seine, and to destroy any Weir or other 

 erection or contrivance used or erected in contravention of the said 

 recited Act, and all such Nets and Seines shall be forfeited and dis- 

 posed of in manner provided by the Fifth Section of this Act. 



VII. All Forfeitures and Penalties imposed by this or the said 

 recited Act shall be recovered, with Costs, in a summary manner, 

 before any Justice of the Peace, for which purpose such Justice shall 

 have fuirpower to summon or arrest the offender, and to compel all 

 Witnesses, either by Summons or Warrant, to appear before him on 

 such trial, and upon conviction of such offender, such Justice shall 

 issue his Warrant to cause such Seines, Nets, or other contrivances, so 

 illegally used, to be sold at Public Auction, or, where permitted under 

 the preceding Section of this Act, destroyed ; and in default of pay- 

 ment of such penalty as may be imposed, and costs, by the party con- 

 victed, such Justice shall issue his Warrant to any Constable, or other 

 Person, to arrest and imprison such convicted offender for a period 

 not exceeding twenty days. 



VIII. All Penalties and Forfeitures, under this or the said recited 

 Act, and all proceeds thereof when recovered, shall be paid to the 

 party informing against and prosecuting such offender to conviction. 



