APPENDIX. 



CAP. LXII. 



AN ACT EESPECTING FISHEKIES AND FISHING. 



Protection to Fisheries. 



1. The Governor in Council may grant special fishing leases and 

 licenses on lands belonging to the Crown, for any term not exceeding 

 nine years, and may make all and every such regulation or regu- 

 lations as may be found necessary or expedient for the better man- 

 agement and regulation of the Fisheries of the Province. 22 Y. c. 

 86, s. 4. 



2. The Governor may, as occasion shall require, appoint two 

 Superintendents of Fisheries, one for Upper and one for Lower 

 Canada. Four Overseers may be appointed by the Commissioners 

 of Crown Lands, in such places, and in such divisions of territory, as 

 may be considered necessary. Ibid. s. 5. 



5. The Governor in Council may cause to be set apart any river 

 or other water for the natural or artificial propagation of salmon, 

 trout or other fish. Ibid. s. 8. 



6. The Governor in Council may grant permission to fish in the 

 rivers within the King's Posts. Ibid. s. 9. 



7. Whoever throws overboard ballast in any river, harbor or 

 roadstead, where fishing is carried on. or the remains of offal of fish, 

 in any such river, or within three miles of the coast of the mainland, 

 or of any island, or on any fishing-bank, shall incur a fine not exceed- 

 ing eighty dollars, and the master or owner of such vessel or boat, 

 from which such ballast or offal of fish shall have been thrown, shall 

 be held liable for every such offence : Provided always that it shall 

 be lawful for any person to bury such offal of figh on the mainland 

 or any island at a distance of not less than an acre from the beach 

 thereof. Ibid. s. 11. 



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