86 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



IX. No conviction or proceeding by any Justice or other Officer, 

 under this Act, shall be quashed or set aside for want of form, so long 

 as the same shall be substantially in accordance with the true intent 

 and meaning of this Act. 



X. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall in 

 any way affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by 

 Treaty to the Subjects or Citizens of any State or Power in amity with 

 Her Majesty. 



XL The Ninth Section of the said recited Act for the Protection 

 of the Salmon Fishery is hereby Repealed. 



ACT OF MAY 1, 1866. 

 [29 Viet., Cap. XL] 



An Act to amend an Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of Her 

 present Majesty, entitled "An Act for the Protection of the Herring and 

 Salmon Fisheries on the Coast of this Island, and for other purposes." [Passed 

 1st May, 1866.] 



Whereas it is expedient to Amend an Act passed in the Twenty- 

 fifth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, entitled " An Act for 

 the Protection of the Herring and Salmon Fisheries on the Coast of 

 this Island, and for other purposes ; " 



Be it therefore Enacted ~by tk-3 Governor, Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 



The " Point Rosey " mentioned as a limit in the Fourth Section of 

 the hereinbefore in part recited Act, is hereby declared to the " Point 

 Rosey," or " Point Enragee " on the Western Coast of this Island 

 near Cape Ray, in the District of Burgeo and La Poile. 



ACT OF MAY 5, 1873. 

 [36 Viet, Cap. III.] 



An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, One Thousand Eight Hundred and 

 Seventy-one. [Passed 5th May, 1873.] [Repealed by Act of April 29, 1874.] 



Whereas a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of 

 America was signed at Washington on the eighth day of May, One 

 Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-one, and was duly ratified on 

 the seventeenth day of June in that year, which, amongst other things, 

 contained the following Article: 



" It is further agreed that the provisions and stipulations of Arti- 

 cles eighteen to twenty-five of this Treaty, inclusive, shall extend to 

 the Colony of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable; but if 

 the Imperial Parliament, the Legislature of Newfoundland, or the 

 Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the Colony of New- 

 foundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing Articles 

 into effect, then this Article shall be of no effect; but the omission to 

 make provision by law to give it effect, by either of the Legislative 



