APPENDIX (J). 



Memorandum submitted by the Urdted States in reply to Abstract of 

 Statutes, Proclamations, dec., fled by Great Britain,. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



BRITISH ABSTRACT OF STATUTES, CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, 

 PROCLAMATIONS, &c. NOTES. 



AND 



Before 1788. 



Br. App. 689. 1611. 

 Orders issued by John Guy 

 (Governor), binding " all persons 

 of what nation soever." 



(1.) No ballast to be thrown 

 out to the prejudice of the har- 

 bours. 



(2.) No harm to be done to 

 any stages, cook-rooms, flakes, &c. 



(3.) Admirals of each harbour 

 to take such beach or flakes as are 

 necessary for his boats with over- 

 plus only for one boat more than 

 he hath, and every other person 

 to content himself with what he 

 shall have necessary use for. 



(4.) No person to change 

 marks of boats. 



(5.) No person to convert to 

 his own use boats of others except 

 in cases of necessity and on notice 

 to admiral. 



(6.) No person to set fire in 

 any woods. 



"Orders issued by Jolvn, Guy, 

 Governor of Newfoundland, 

 August 13, 1611." 



The preamble states : " Whereas 

 among those persons that use the 

 trade of fishing in these parts, 

 many disorders, abuses and bad 

 customs have crept in .... for 

 as much as it concerneth not only 

 the benefit and profit of the trade 

 of fishing, but also the public be- 

 hoof and good, if all such griev- 

 ances should be stopped," the or- 

 ders are issued. 



The orders were police provi- 

 sions intended to prevent disor- 

 der among these engaged in the 

 fishery. 



The orders do not in any man- 

 ner restrict the liberty of taking 

 fish as to hours, days, or seasons, 

 or as to method, means, or imple- 

 ments employed ; on the contrary, 

 they clearly protect the Uberty of 

 fishing from interference, rather 

 than limiting the exercise of such 

 liberty. 



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