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Cape Harrigan before noon of the fifth day of July; nor from 

 Thumb Island north, before noon of the tenth day of July in any 

 year. Provided that when any of the above dates fall on Sunday it 

 shall be lawful to set the cod-trap or cod-trap leader, at or after 

 noon on the day previous (Saturday). If any person shall set a 

 cod-trap leader on the fishing grounds after the above dates, in order 

 to secure the place for the setting of his cod-trap, and such person 

 shall fail to set such cod-trap within four days after setting out 

 such leader, it shall be lawful for any other person who may desire 

 to secure the place where such leader was so set out for the setting 

 of his (the latter's) cod-trap, to remove such leader, and then set 

 his own leader or cod-trap in place thereof, and the latter shall be 

 subject also to the provisions of this section as against any other 

 who may so desire to set a leader of cod-trap ; provided that if any 

 person after setting his cod-trap leader shall be bond -fide prevented 

 by stress of weather or ice from setting his cod-trap within the said 

 four days, such period shall be computed from the time at which 

 the weather or ice shall permit of his setting such cod-trap. 



No bultows or trawls shall be used before the fifteenth day of Au- 

 gust in any year on the fishing grounds within three miles of the 

 Coast of Labrador or Islands on said Coast between a line to be 

 drawn south-east from Cape Charles and a line drawn from east and 

 west from White Islands in Domino Run. 



No cod-trap shall be set in Blackguard Bay, Labrador, except from 

 the mainland or islands and rocks above water, inside a line to be 

 drawn from Curlew Point, thence to Long Island Head to the north- 

 west end of the Western Hare Island. 



64. The use of cod-traps is entirely prohibited in Port-au-Port 

 Bay ; that is to say, in East and West Bay, and extending from Long 

 Point (or the Bar) to Bear Head, north of Serpentine River, in the 

 District of St. George. 



(Added.) The use of trawls of bultows is prohibited on the fishing 

 grounds inside one mile from the shore in Pinnaire Bay in the Straits 

 of Belle Isle. 



General. 



77 No person shall, at any time, in the waters of New- 

 foundland, haul, catch, or take squid within or by means of any 

 seine, bunt, or other such contrivance. 



78. No person shall between the hours of twelve o'clock on Satur- 

 day and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, take or catch in any manner 

 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. Caplain may be 

 taken for fertilizing purposes by farmers or their employees during 

 the usual season. 



79. No person shall dig, take, buy, sell, ship or put. or assist in 

 shipping or putting on board any boat, ship or vessel, or carry in or 

 on board of any ship, vessel or boat, any clams, mussels, scallops, 

 cock-and-hens, or other shell fish, for the purpose of exportation, or 

 for any other purpose, except that of being bond fide for bait for the 

 fisheries of this Colony, or of the same as prosecuted therefrom, or 

 under a foreign fishing license in accordance with the rules thereon : 

 Provided that any such shell fish may be taken for local food pur- 

 poses and for boiling and canning. 



