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NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



12. No rinding of trees after 

 the 25th March ; no setting fire to 

 woods. No person after the 25th 

 March to hinder hauling of seines 

 in customary baiting places, or to 

 shoot his seine in or upon any 

 other seines. 



1413 14. Admirals to see to 

 enforcement of regulations 

 contained in the Act. 



16. Sunday to be strictly ob- 

 served. 



must " relinquish, quit, and leave 

 to the public use of the fishing 

 ships arriving there, all and every 

 the said stages, cook-rooms, 

 beaches and other places for tak- 

 ing bait and fishing," etc. 



This distinction between Brit- 

 ish fishermen and the inhabitants 

 of Newfoundland is also shown 

 by Clause 16 (cited in the British 

 abstract) which requires that the 

 inhabitants of Newfoundland 

 'shall strictly and decently ob- 

 serve every Lord's Day, com- 

 monly called Sunday," but no 

 such observance is enjoined upon 

 the fishermen from Great Brit- 

 ain. Furthermore fishing is not 

 prohibited on Sunday. 



The character of the regula- 

 tions to be enforced by the Ad- 

 mirals, as noted in the British ab- 

 stract under Clause 14, and the 

 manner of their enforcement are 

 disclosed by the following extract 

 from Sabine's Report in 1852 (p. 

 53).: 



As the century closes we no- 

 tice the mention of a report of 

 the Lords of Trade and Planta- 

 tions, in which they so far mod- 

 ify their former order, relative to 

 emigration, as to intimate that, 

 inasmuch as a thousand persons 

 might be useful at Newfound- 

 land, to construct boats and fish- 

 ing-stages, that number would be 

 suffered to live there, without 

 fear, we may conclude, of official 

 incendiaries and legal robbers. 

 But the gracious privilege thus 

 accorded still placed the resident 

 fishermen at the tender mercies of 

 the merchants and the masters of 

 their vessels; for by an act of 

 Parliament in 1698 (1699), these 

 masters, in the absence of all law. 

 were authorized to administer 

 justice, and to regulate the gen- 

 eral concerns of the fisheries and 

 of the colony, almost at pleasure. 



Were the inmates of British 

 prisons to be subjected now to 



