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

 shall be prima facie evidence of the purchase of the said bait fishes and supplies and 

 outfits within such port or waters. 



5. No alien, not so entitled by treaty or convention for the time being in force, 

 shall fish in the waters of this Colony; and the master, owner, or agent of any fishing 

 vessel who permits any alien not so entitled to fish in, from, or for such vessel, shall 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to the forfeiture of such 

 vessel, as the Magistrate shall determine. 



6. No person, being a British subject, shall fish in, from, or for a foreign fishing 

 vessel in the waters of this Colony, and the master, owner, or agent of any foreign 

 fishing vessel who permits any such British subject to fish in, for, or from such vessel, 

 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to the forfeiture of 

 such vessel as the Magistrate shall determine. 



7. No person, being a resident of this Colony, shall leave this Colony for the 

 purpose of engaging in foreign fishing vessels which are fishing or intending to fish 

 in the waters of this Colony, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



8. No person, being a resident of this Colony, shall sell, let, hire, lend or remove 

 from this Colony, for the purpose of seUing, letting, hiring, or lending to a master, 

 owner or agent of any foreign fishing vessel any boats, nets, or gear, under a penalty 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars; nor shall the master, owner or agent of any foreign 

 fishing vessel buy, hire, or borrow, in any port or place in this Colony, or in the waters 

 of this Colony, any boats, nets, or fishing gear, from any person resident in this Colony, 

 under a penalty for each offense not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



9. The master of any vessel who conveys any person resident in the Colony out- 

 side the waters of this Colony, for the purpose of enabling such person to be engaged 

 on board any foreign fishing vessel, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one 

 hundred dollars. 



10. All offenders against the provisions of this Act may be prosecuted and convicted, 

 and all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and other punishments imposed, recovered and 

 made in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate; and any vessel, and the 

 tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture, stores and cargo thereof, liable to forfeiture under 

 the provisions of this Act, may be sued for, prosecuted, recovered and condemned 

 in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate in a proceeding against 

 the master or other person in charge of such vessel. For the purposes of this 

 Act all Stipendiary Magistrates shall be deemed to be Stipendiary Magistrates for 

 the Colony, and may exercise the jurisdiction given by this Act in any part of 

 the Colony. 



11. If any person convicted under this Act shall feel himself aggrieved by such 

 conviction, he may appeal therefrom to the then next sitting of His Majesty's Supreme 

 Court, holden in or nearest the place where such conviction shall have been had, or 

 in St. John's: Provided notice of such appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, 

 be given to the convicting magistrate in writing within seven days next after such 

 conviction, and the party desiring to appeal shall also, within fourteen days after 

 such notice, give and enter into recognizance, with two approved sureties, before the 

 convicting magistrate, conditioned for the appearance of the person convicted at 

 such next sitting of the Supreme Court, on the first day of such sitting, for the prose- 

 cution of the appeal with effect and without delay, to abide the judgment of the Court 

 thereon, and for the delivery and surrender of any vessel or other property ordered 

 to be confiscated, and to pay such costs as the Court may award. 



