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rying on of fishing operations on the treaty coasts, which specific 

 provisions the United States claims are not appropriate, necessary, 

 reasonable, and fair, as defined in Question 1, if applied to American 

 fishermen on the treaty coasts: 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Consolidated Statutes , 189%, Chapter 124* 



1. No person shall haul, catch or take herrings by or in a seine or 

 other such contrivance, on or near any part of the coast of this colony 

 or its dependencies, or in any of the bays, harbours, or other places 

 therein, at any time between the twentieth day of October in any 

 year and the eighteenth day of April in the following year, or at any 

 time use a seine or other contrivance for the catching or taking of 

 herring, except by way of shooting and forthwith hauling the same, 

 under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars: 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 enclosing herrings in a cove, inlet or other place. This 

 section shall not apply to the coast of Labrador. 



2. The owners, masters, and other persons managing or controlling 

 vessels conveying herrings in bulk, between the twentieth day of 

 October in any year and the eighteenth day of April in the following 

 year, shall be deemed to have hauled, caught or taken such herrings 

 contrary to the provisions of the preceding section of this chapter, 

 unless such owner, master or other person aforesaid shall make proot 

 to the contrary. 



5. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter it shall 

 be lawful for the owner of any vessel owned and registered in this 

 Colony, which shall be fully fitted out, supplied and ready to prose- 

 cute the Bank fishery, and shall have obtained a Customs' clearance 

 for the said fishery, to haul, catch and take herring at any time and 

 by any means, except by in-barring and enclosing such herring in a 

 cove, inlet or other place, to an extent not exceeding sixty barrels for 

 any one voyage, to be used as bait in prosecuting the said Bank 

 fishery in the said vessel. 



12. No person shall, at any time haul, catch or take squids within, 

 or by means of any seine, bunt, or other such contrivances. 



13. No person shall, between the hours of twelve o'clock on Sat- 

 urday night and twelve o'clock on Sunday night take or catch in any 

 manner whatever or by any contrivance whatsoever, any herring, 

 caplin, squid, or any other bait fish, or set or put out any contrivance 

 whatsoever, for the purpose of taking or catching herring, caplin, 

 squid or other bait fish. 



23. After two years from the ninth day of May, 1888, it shall be 

 unlawful for any person to use any cod-trap, for the purpose of 

 catching or taking any cod-fish on the coast of this colony or its 

 dependencies. 



A ct of March 3, 1898. (61 Viet., cap. 3.) 



9. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regula- 

 tions for the better management and regulation of the sea, coast, and 

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