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(10.) Limits stage room occupied by any planter. 



(13.) The company to assemble on Lord's Day for worship. 

 [These were regulations for fishing and for drying and curing on 

 *hore.~\ 



Star Chamber rules. (Br. App., 512. 1660.) 



Similar to 1683 regulations. 



15 Chas. II, cap. 16. (Br. App., 517. 1663.) 



(7.) No person to lay any net in or near any harbour to catch 

 spawn or young fry of Poor John, or for any other use except for 

 taking of bait. 



[Regulates fishing]. 



Order in Council for regulating fishing trade in Newfoundland. 

 (Br. App., 518. 1670.) 



1. Subjects of His Majesty's Kingdom of England for ever to 

 have freedom of taking bait arid fishing in any of the .... har- 

 bours or roads in or near Newfoundland, with liberty to land 



1363 for curing, salting, and drying of fish and for cutting of wood 

 for stages, rooms, &c., provided they submit to any present and 

 future regulations. 



2. No alien to take bait or fish between Cape Race and Cape Bona 

 Vista. 



4. No planter to occupy stages, beach, &c., before English fisher- 

 men are provided for. 



'.). No fishing vessel to leave England before the 1st March. 



11. No captain to use any stage in any port, harbour or bay be- 

 tween Cape Race and Cape Bona Vista with less than 25 men all of 

 one company. 



13. Admirals to see to preservation of peace and good order and 

 the execution of His Majesty's rules for regulation of the fishery. 



15. No fishermen to remain after end of October. 

 10 & 11 Wm. Ill, cap. 25. (Br. App., 525. 1699.) 



1. All His Majesty's subjects residing in England or the domin- 

 ions thereunto belonging to have, use, and enjoy the free trade and 

 are of merchandise and fishery, the freedom of taking bait and fish- 

 ing in any of the .... creeks, harbours, or roads in or near New- 

 foundland and the said areas, and liberty to land for curing fish and 

 to cut down trees for making stages, &c. ; and no alien (not residing 

 in England, Wales, or Berwick) to take bait or fish in Newfound- 

 land. 



2. Eepeats provisions against throwing ballast into harbours. 



3. Same provisions against destroying stages, &c. 



4. Provisions as to admirals, and against taking more of the beach 

 or stages than necessary admirals to settle differences. 



12. No rinding of trees after 25th March; no setting fire to woods. 

 No person after the 25th March to hinder hauling of seines in cus- 

 tomary baiting places, or to shoot his seine in or upon any other 

 seines. 



14. Admirals to see to enforcement of regulations contained in the 

 Act. 



16. Sunday to be strictly observed. 



Regulations by Hugh Palliser (governor). (Br. App., 690. 1765.) 



1. No colonist (except whale fishers) to go to Labrador. 



2. No person to resort to Labrador to fish or trade except ship 

 fishers from His Majesty's dominions in Europe. 



