47° APPENDIX 



NEWFOUNDLAND STATUTE OF 6 EDWARD VII, CAP. 1, MAY 10, 1906' 

 An Act Respecting Foreign Fishing Vessels 



[Passed ioth May, 1906] 

 Section Section 



1. Power of officers to board and search 10. Procedure. 



foreign vessels. 11. Appeal. 



2. Penalties for offenses. 12. Informality no ground for setting 



3. Respecting seizure of vessels and pen- aside proceedings. 



alty for obstructing officers. 13. Foreign vessels exercising Treaty 



4. Evidence of offense committed. rights amenable to local laws. 

 S- Certain aliens not entitled to fish. 14. Saving all Treaty rights. 



6. British subject not to fish in foreign 15. Governor in Council may limit or 



vessel. suspend Act. 



7. Residents not to leave Colony to fish 16. Interpretation. 



in foreign vessels. 17. Repealing section. 



8. Residents not to sell or hire fishery 18. Suspending section. 



gear. 



9. Penalty. 



Be it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, 

 in Legislative Session convened, as follows: — 



1. Any Justice of the Peace, Sub-Collector, Preventive Officer, Fishery Warden, 

 or Constable, may go, on board any foreign vessel being within any port on the coasts 

 of this Colony, or hovering in British waters within three marine miles of any of the 

 coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours in this Colony, and may bring such foreign fishing 

 vessel into port, may search her cargo, and may examine the master upon oath touch- 

 ing the cargo and voyage, and the master or person in command shall answer truly 

 such questions as shall be put to him, under a penalty not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars. 



2. If any foreign fishing vessel be found within any port on the coasts of this 

 Colony, or hovering in British waters within three marine miles of any of the coasts, 

 bays, creeks, or harbours in this Colony, and having on board any herring, caplin, 

 squid, or other bait fishes, ice, lines, seines, or other outfits or supplies for the fishery, 

 purchased within any port on the coasts of this Colony or within the distance of three 

 marine miles from any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of this Colony; or if 

 the master, owner or agent of the said vessel shall have engaged, or attempted to 

 engage, any person to form part of the crew of the said vessel in any port, or on any 

 part of the coasts of this Colony, or has entered such waters for any purpose not 

 permitted by treaty or convention for the time being' in force, the master, owner or 

 agent shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or such vessel 

 and the tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, stores and cargo thereof shall be forfeited, 

 as the Magistrate before whom the proceedings is taken shall determine. 



3. All goods and vessels, and the tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, stores and 

 cargo thereof, liable to forfeiture under this Act, may be seized and secured by any 

 officer or person mentioned in the first section hereof, and every person opposing any 

 such officer or person in the execution of his duty under this Act, or aiding or abetting 

 any other person in such opposition, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 

 liable to a fine of five hundred dollars. 



4. In any prosecution under this Act, the presence on board any foreign fishing 

 vessel in any port of this Colony, or within British waters aforesaid, of any caplin, 



..~- ' Appendix, British Case, p. 758; Appendix, U. S. Case, p. 199. 



