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within the limits specified and described in the first Article of the 

 said Convention, and hereinbefore recited ; and that if any such 

 foreign ship, vessel or boat, or any persons on board thereof, shall 

 be found fishing or to have been fishing, or preparing to fish within 

 such distance of such coasts, bays, creeks or harbours, within such 

 parts of His Majesty's Dominions in America out of the said 

 limits as aforesaid, all such ships, vessels and boats, together with 

 their cargoes, and all guns, ammunition, tackle, apparel, furni- 

 ture and stores, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized, 

 taken, sued for, prosecuted, recovered and condemned by such and 

 the like ways, means and methods, and in the same courts, as 

 ships, vessels or boats may be forfeited, seized, prosecuted and 

 condemned for any offence against any laws relating to the reve- 

 nue of customs, or the laws of trade and navigation, under any 

 Act or Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, or of the United 

 Ivingdom of Great Britain, and Ireland; provided that nothing in 

 this Act contained shall apply, or be construed to apply to the 

 ships or subjects of any Prince, Power or State in amity with 

 His Majesty, who are entitled by treaty with His Majesty to any 

 privilege of taking, drying or curing fish on the coasts, bays, creeks 

 or harbors, or within the limits in this Act described. 



HI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall and 

 may be lawful for any fisherman of the said United States to 

 enter into any such bays or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's 

 Dominions in America as are last mentioned, for the purpose of 

 shelter and repairing damages therein, and of purchasing wood 

 and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever; sub- 

 ject nevertheless to such restrictions as may be necessary to pre- 

 vent such fishermen of the said United States from taking, drying 

 or curing fish in the sakl bays or harbours, or in any other man- 

 ner whatever abusing the saFd privileges by the said Treaty and 

 this Act reserved to them, and as shall for that purpose be im- 

 posed by any order or orders to be from time to time made by 

 His Majesty in Council under the authority of this Act, and by 

 any regulations which shall be issued by the Governor or person 

 exercising the office of Governor in any such parts of His Majes- 

 ty's Dominions in America, under or in pursuance of any such 

 order in council as aforesaid. 



