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NOKTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



Sect. 11. No person concerned 



foundland and Parts adjacent, 

 from Great Britain, Ireland, and 

 the British Dominions in Eu- 

 rope; and for granting Bounties 

 for a limited time, on certain 

 Terms and Conditions, 1786." 



The first nine sections relate to 

 bounties. 



Section 10 provides for the 

 duty on salt imported into Great 

 Britain. 



Section 11 provides that "it 



in fishery to use any seine or net shall not be lawful to or for any 

 for catching cod by hauling on person or persons concerned or 

 shore or tucking into a boat, with employed in carrying on the said 

 mesli less than 4 inches. fishery, or for any seaman or fish- 



erman hired for the purpose of 

 carrying on the said fishery," &c. 

 The said fishery was the bank 

 fishery prosecuted from Europe 

 by British vessels entitled to 

 bounties^ and the regulation was 

 clearly intended to increase the 

 size of the cod taken, in order 

 that the bounty should not be 

 claimed upon a small and inferior 

 quality offish. There is nothing 

 in the Act to show that the pro- 

 vision was intended to preserve 

 the fish. Furthermore, as the 

 provision was limited to those 

 concerned or employed in " or 

 ** hired for the purpose of carry- 

 ing on the said fishery," it applied 

 only to those vessels from Great 

 Britain operated under the 

 bounty provisions of the Act. It 

 was in no sense a regulation of 

 the Newfoundland fisheries. 



Sect. 15. Forbids sale of boats, 

 seines, bait, etc., to any alien. 



There is a manifest difference 

 between Section 11 and Section 

 15 in the fact that Section 11 is 

 limited in its application to per- 

 sons "employed in carrying on 

 the said fishery," while Section 15 

 is applicable to persons " residing 

 or carrying on fishery in the said 

 Island of Newfoundland." This 

 emphasizes the limited applica- 

 tion of Section 11 to the bounty- 

 fed fishermen coming from Great 

 Britain, 



