4. “Commissioner” shall mean the Commissioner of Crown “Commis. 
Lands. sioner.” 
5. “Fishery Lease” shall be held to include and mean ‘Fishery 
a lease or instrument conferring for a term therein men- 
tioned upon the lessee therein named the right to take and 
keep, for the purposes of fishing, under and subject to the pro- 
visions of this Act and of all regulations made thereunder, the 
exclusive possession of any Crown Lands therein described, 
with the exclusive right to fish in any waters flowing over or 
covering the same at such time and in such manner and with 
such restrictions and subject to such regulations as may be per- 
mitted, regulated or prescribed by any lawful authority in that 
behalf. 
6. “Fishing License,” shall be held to mean and include «pshin 
a license granting for the time therein mentioned to the License. 
licensee therein named, upon payment of the license fee 
therein stipulated, a right to fish in any waters flowing over 
or covering ungranted Crown Lands therein described, 
at such time, in such manner and with such restrictions and 
subject to such regulations as may be permitted, regulated 
or prescribed by any lawful authority in that behalf, but no 
fishing license shall be deemed to be, or be construed to operate 
as or in the nature of a lease or demise. 48 V.c. 9,5. 3. 
4. Subject to the other provisions of this Act, every Issue of leases 
fishery lease and every fishing license shall be granted and 2%¢ licenses. 
issued by the Commissioner but subject always to such con- 
ditions, regulations and restrictions as may from time to 
time be made, ordered or established in that behalf by the 
Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and published in the Ontario 
Gazette: Provided, however, that no lease or. license shal] Proviso. 
be granted or issued in respect of or as including any lands or 
waters where an exclusive right of fishing already exists by law 
ao V.-¢. 9,3. 4. 
5. A fishery lease shall not be granted for a longer period than Yeases to be 
five years from the date thereof, and shall only be made to the made at 
highest bidder of an annual rental therefor after the same shal] *™™™*! Tent. 
have been put up to public competition, of which at least one | 
month’s notice shall be given in the Ontario Gazetie, and in 
such other way as to the Commissioner may seem the most 
advantageous; provided always that the price offered be at 
Juast equal to the upset price fixed by the Commissioner, and 
that if not sold, the Commissioner may afterwards, by private 
sale, dispose of the said lease at the upset price, or for a 
page sum; and the signature of the Commissioner to the 
ease shall be evidence in all Courts of a compliance with the 
provisions of this section. 48 V.c. 9,s. 5. 
Proviso, 
6. The rental shall be paid in advance, and a lessee who Forfeiture for 
fails to pay the rental at the date fixed by his fishery lease shal] non-payment. 
