APPENDIX. 347 



CROWN LANDS DEPARTMENT FISHERIES. 



Toronto, 20th December, 1858. 



Pursuant to certain provisions of the Statute 22nd Viet. cap. 86, 

 the Governor- General in Council has been pleased to adopt the 

 following REGULATIONS FOR SALMON AND SEA-TKOUT FISHERIES 

 IN LOWER CANADA. 



By -Law A. In agreement with the intent and meaning of the 

 4th and 7th Sections of the Fishery- Act, it is hereby declared 

 that, henceforth the Crown, for all practical purposes, resumes 

 and re-enters formally into possession of all fishing stations for 

 salmon and sea-trout appertaining thereto, in Lower Canada, and 

 that no claim by priority or by reason of past occupation of any 

 of these places, shall hereinafter exist, and that any party or 

 parties continuing to occupy and use any net-fishery for salmon 

 or sea-trout without obtaining lease or license therefore under 

 authority from the Crown, shall, after previous notice, become 

 liable to such pains and penalties as are imposed by the aforesaid 

 Act, saving moreover, all other recourse in like cases provided 

 by law. 



B. Neither stake-nets, drift-nets, gill-nets, float or stell-nets, 

 scoop-nets, seines, weirs, nor other self-acting machine whatsoever, 

 shall be used within the course of any river or stream frequented 

 chiefly by salmon and sea-trout, at a greater distance from the 

 mouth thereof, than the usual mark of tidal floods, or inside of 

 such other actual limit as may be assigned in the field to each 

 estuary holding by the Superintendent of Fisheries for Lower 

 Canada, or by the stipendary magistrate in charge of the Govern- 

 ment vessel for the protection of fisheries. 



