APPENDK. 347 



CROWN LANDS DEPARTMENT — FISHERIES. 

 Toronto, 20th December, 1858. 



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

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

 followina; EEGrxATioNS for Salmon and Sea-Teout Fisheries 

 IN Lower Canada. 



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

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

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

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

 sahnon 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, shaU 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 

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

 Act, — saving moreover, aU other recourse in like cases provided 

 by law. 



-B. — Neither stake-nets, drift-nets, gill-nets, float or steU-nets, 

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

 shall be used within the course of any river or stream fi-equented 

 chiefly by sahnon 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. 



