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8. No one shall anchor near the shore in such a manner as to 

 impede the throwing and hauling of seines, or the setting of standing 

 nets. Ibid. s. 12. 



9. No one shall set standing nets in such a manner as to impede 

 the throwing or the hauling of seines. Ibid. s. 13. 



10. No one shall set seines or nets in such a manner as to impede 

 the navigation or anchorage in any hay, harbor or roadstead, or other 

 place required for navigation. Ibid. s. 14. 



20. No one shall fish for, catch or kill salmon in any way what- 

 ever, between the first day of August and the first day of March in 

 any year ; except only that it shall be lawful to fish for salmon with 

 a rod and line, in the manner known as fly-surface-fishing, from the 

 first of March to the first of September in any year, in Upper or 

 Lower Canada. Ibid. s. 24. 



21. No one shall use any net, or take salmon in any way what- 

 ever, at any salmon-leap, or where any artificial salmon pass shall 

 have been constructed, nor in any pools or ponds where salmon are 

 wont to spawn. Ibid. s. 25. 



22. Whoever obstructs the main channel or course of any river, 

 either by placing therein nets or fishing apparatus of any kind, or 

 any obstacles of any kind whatever, for the purpose of taking salmon 

 or any other species of fish, shall thereby incur for each oifence a 

 fine not exceeding twenty dollars, and the forfeiture of his fishing 

 apparatus ; and in no case shall the said channel or course so left 

 open be less than one-third of the whole breadth of such river. 

 Ibid. s. 26. 



23-. The owner of any dam or slide where fish may ascend, shall, 

 for the purpose of affording a passage to the fish, attach and main- 

 tain to each dam or slide, a fish way of such form and dimensions as 

 shall be determined by the Superintendent of Fisheries, under a 

 penalty of four dollars for each day on which he shall fail so to do 

 after two months' notice by the superintendent. Ibid. s. 27. 



24. Any salmon taken in contravention of the twentieth section 

 of this act, shall subject all parties concerned in the breach of the 

 said section, whether the actual transgressors or accessories, to a 

 penalty of not more than forty dollars, nor less than twenty dollars, 

 together with the forfeiture of the fish, canoe, boat or other vessel 

 in which the fish may have been placed, or to imprisonment for a 

 period of not more than six months, nor less than three months. 

 Ibid. s. 28. 



25. The meshes of any net used for the taking of salmon shall not 

 be less than five inches in extension, knot to knot, under penalty 

 and on pain of forfeiture of the nets. Ibid. s. 29. 



26. No one shall fish with any net or seine whatever, of a less 

 sized mesh than one and a half inches on the square, in any lake, 

 river or bay, or in any of the waters of Upper Canada. Ibid. s. 30. 



27. No one shall fish for, catch or kill any kind of trout in any 



