APPENDICES TO ORAL ARGUMENTS. 2271 



CANADA. 



Revised Statutes, 1906, Chapter %5. 



Powers of Fishery Officers and other Justices. 

 69. Every subject of His Majesty may use vacant public property, 

 such as by law is common and accessory to public rights of fishery 

 and navigation, for the purposes of landing, salting, curing and dry- 

 ing fish, and may cut wood thereon for such purposes, and no other 

 person shall occupy the same station unless it has been abandoned 

 by the first occupant for twelve consecutive months; and at the ex- 

 piration of that period any new occupier shall pay the value of 

 flakes and stages and other property thereon, of which he takes pos- 

 session, or the buildings and improvements may be removed by the 

 original owner. 



Revised Statutes, 1906, Chapter 47. 



Boarding and Search. 



5. Any commissioned officer of His Majesty's navy, serving on 

 board any vessel of His Majesty's navy cruising and being in the 

 waters of Canada for the purpose of affording protection to His 

 Majesty's subjects engaged in the fisheries, or any commissioner offi- 

 cer of His Majesty's navy, fishery officer or stipendarv magistrate, 

 on board of any vessel belonging to or in the service or the Govern- 

 ment of Canada, and employed in the service of protecting 



1374 the fisheries, or any officer of the Customs of Canada, sheriff, 

 justice of the peace or other person duly commissioned for 

 that purpose may go on board of any ship, vessel or boat within any 

 harbour in Canada, or hovering in British waters within three ma- 

 rine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours in Canada, or 

 in or upon the inland waters of Canada, and stay on board so long as 

 she remains within such harbour or distance. R. S., c. 94, s. 2. 



6. Any one of the officers or persons herein before mentioned, may 

 bring any ship, vessel, or boat, being within any harbour in Canada, 

 or hovering in British waters, within three marine miles of any of 

 the coasts, bays, creeks or harbours in Canada, or in or upon the in- 

 land waters of Canada, into port, and search her cargo, and may also 

 examine the master or person in command upon oath touching the 

 cargo and voyage. R. S., c. 94, s. 3 and 20. 



Ordw-in-Counctt, September 12, 1907, pro-nwlgating Fishery Regu- 

 lations. 



GENERAL FISHERY REGULATIONS. 



Sec. 5. Lobster Fishery. 



12. No one shall, for canning purposes, boil lobsters on board any 

 ship, vessel, boat or floating structure of any description what- 

 ever, except under special license from the Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries. 



THIRD SCHEDULE. 



Specific provisions in respect of customs regulations, and light, 

 harbour, and other dues referred to in Questions 3 and 4, which are 



