APPENDICES TO OBAL ABGUMENTS. 2257 



Law of New Hampshire. (Br. App., 772. 1687.) 



By Governor and Council. 



No mackerel to be caught (except for spending whilst fresh) be- 

 fore 1st July, and no mackerel to be caught with seines. 

 New Plymouth. 



Order of General Court. (Br. App., 770. 1668.) 

 Directs requests to Court of Massachusetts to restrain throwing of 

 offal overboard. 



Ordtr of General Court. (Br. App., 770. 1670.) 

 Prohibition against casting ballast near shore where convenient for 

 seine fishing or throwing offal overboard, any inhabitant drawing 

 mackerel ashore to pay 6d. per barrel any foreigner to pay Is. Qd. 

 per barrel. 



Order of General Court. (Br. App., 771. 1672.) 

 Water bailiff may give liberty to strangers to fish with seine on 

 paying dues. 



Order of General Court. (Br. App., 771. 1677.) 

 The country having let their privileges of fishing at the Cape to 

 three agreed it shall be improved by our own people, but in case 

 they refuse, it shall be at the liberty of the partners to admit any out 

 of the colony to improve it with them. 



Order of General Court. (Br. App., 1771. 1684.) 

 No mackerel to be caught with nets or seines. 

 New York. 



Act by Governor, Council and General Assembly. (Br. 

 App., 775. 1772.) 



No person to draw seine or net of any length or set any seine or net 

 more than 6 fathoms long, with meshes not less than 3 inches square 

 from the 15th November to 15th April in the bays, rivers, or creeks 

 of the County of Suffolk. 



Act by Lieutenant-Governor, Council and General As- 

 sembly. (Br. App., 776. 1775.) 

 Prohibition against: 



(a.) Drawing nets of any length or setting nets above 6 fathoms 

 long in bays, &c., of County of Suffolk between loth November and 

 15th April. 



(b.) Setting any net in Ketchabanuck Channel or within 30 rods 

 of mouth of said channel, leading into or out of Quantuck Bay. 



(<?.) Setting nets in any other place in bays, &c., of said county 

 within 4 rods of another net and that with meshes less than 3 inches 

 square. 



Between 1783 and 181%. 



Newfoundland. 



26 Geo. Ill, cap. 26. (Br. App., 555. 1786.) 



Sec. II. No person concerned in fishery to use any seine or net for 

 catching cod by hauling on shore or tucking into a boat, with mesh 

 less than 4 inches. 



Sec. 15. Forbids sale of boats, seines, bait, &c., to any alien. 

 Nova Scotia. 



26 Geo. Ill, cap. 7. (Br. App., 591. 1786.) 



Sec. 9. Justices to regulate manner of placing nets and seines in 

 havens, rivers, creeks, and harbours of province. 



