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Martin Point and Point Michaux, in the Island of Cape Breton, and including Chedabucto Bay and St. Peter's Bay, and the coasts and waters of all the islands lying in and adjacent to these bays, and including the coasts and waters of the Gut of Canso, as far as a line passing from Flat Point in Inverness County, to the lighthouse in Antigonish County opposite.

4. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession, lobsters between the first day of August in each year, and the last day of April then next following, both days inclusive, on and along that part of the coast of Cape Breton Island, in the province of Nova Scotia, or the waters thereof, from Red Point, between Martin Point and Point Michaux, in the Island of Cape Breton, and extending to, and around Cape North, as far as and including Cape St. Lawrence; also the coasts and waters of all the islands known as the Magdalen Islands, including Bird Rocks and Bryon Island; also the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from the Bay of Blanc Sablon, in the province of Quebec, westward to the head of tide, embracing the coasts and waters of all the islands adjacent to the said shore, and including the Island of Anticosti.

5. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession, lobsters between the eleventh day of August in each year, and the twentyfourth day of May then next following, both days inclusive, along the coasts and in the waters of Northumberland Straits, between a line, on the northwest, drawn from Chockfish River in New Brunswick to West Point in Prince Edward Island, and a line on the south-east, drawn from Indian Point, near Cape Tormentine in New Brunswick, to Cape Traverse, in Prince Edward Island.

6. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession, lobsters from the eleventh day of July in each year, to the nineteenth day of April then next following, both days inclusive, in any part of Canada or the coasts or waters thereof, not embraced within the limits described in the foregoing regulations.

7. Excepting as provided by Regulations Nos. 1 and 2 as above, in which the size limits are fixed at 9 inches and 10 inches respectively, no one shall in any part of Canada, or the coasts or waters thereof, at any time, fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession, any lobster or lobsters under 8 inches in length, measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers.

8. No one shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell, or have in his possession, for any purpose whatever, any berried lobster or lobsters, or any soft-shell lobster or lobsters. Such lobsters when caught shall be liberated alive.

9. No one shall set or place lobster traps, or other fishing apparatus, for the purpose of taking lobsters in any waters of the depth of two fathoms or under.

10. No one shall set or place lobster traps, or other fishing apparatus for the purpose of taking lobsters, at a distance of less than one hundred yards from any stationary salmon net, set for the purpose of taking salmon.

11. No one shall for canning purposes offer for sale, sell, barter, supply or purchase any fragments of lobsters, lobsters purposely mutilated or broken up, or any broken lobster meat, and all fragments of lobsters, lobsters purposely mutilated or broken up, or broken lobster meat, so offered for sale,

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sold, bartered, supplied or purchased, shall be liable to seizure and confiscation, unless possessed for the purpose of domestic consumption only, and not for canning, the proof whereof shall devolve on the owner or possessor.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxш., p. 1164.

By Order in Council of the 11th of December, 1899, it was ordered that no pound nets be allowed in the waters of Georgian Bay, east of a line bearing north-south 25°.49' west-east (astronomic) connecting Cape Hurd, in the county of Bruce, with Buswell Point at the mouth of Spanish River, in the district of Algoma, and province of Ontario.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1219.

By Order in Council of the 12th of December, 1899, certain amendments, as set forth, to the rules and regulations for the construction of Marine Steamboat boilers were approved.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1220.

By Order in Council of the 15th of December, 1899, a by-law, submitted. by the Pilotage Authority for the district of Halifax, in the province of Nova Scotia, amending the pilotage rates for the said district, was approved.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXI., p. 1219.

By Order in Council of the 19th of December, 1899, in accordance with the provisions of the Harbour Masters Act, the Port of Tusket, in the county of Yarmouth, and province of Nova Scotia, established under Order in Council of 1st of March, 1875, under the provisions of the Harbour Masters Act, was divided, as follows, namely:

"1. The Harbour of Tusket shall include that portion of Tusket River lying between Tusket Bridge and a line drawn across Tusket River from Brandy Point to Dulce Island."

"2. A new harbour shall be established to be known as the Harbour of Tusket Wedge which shall have as its northern boundary the above named boundary of the Harbour of Tusket, its southern limit to embrace all the waters inside of a line drawn from Wedge Point to the south extremity of Western Bar Island, thence to the south extremity of the Eastern Bar Island, and thence to the extremity of Wilson Point."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1219.

By Order in Council of the 21st of December, 1899, in virtue of the provisions of the Harbour Masters Act, it was ordered that the limits of the Port of Vancouver, in the province of British Columbia, for the purposes of the Harbour Masters Act, should include all navigable waters east of a straight

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line drawn from the west tangent of Gray Point to Point Atkinson Lighthouse including Burrard Inlet with Port Moodie and North Arm to the head of navigation.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1281.

By Order in Council of the 14th of December, 1899, in virtue of the provisions of the Act 55-56 Victoria, chapter 3, intituled "An Act respecting Fishing Vessels of the United States," the issue of licenses to United States fishing vessels during the calendar year 1900, for the purposes provided for by the said Act, was authorized, that is to say :

(a.) The purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines and all other supplies and outfits;

(b.) The transhipment of catch and the shipping of crews.

The fee charged for such licenses to be one dollar and fifty cents per ton on actual registered tonnage, and the term thereof to expire on the 31st day of December, 1900.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1347.

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By Order in Council of the 29th December, 1899, under the provisions of the Harbour Masters Act, the limits of the Port of Beaver Harbour, in the county of Halifax, and province of Nova Scotia, for harbour masters purposes, were defined.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1477.

By Order in Council of the 27th of March, 1900, a by-law passed by the Pilotage Authority of Victoria and Esquimalt on the 28th February, 1900, amending subsection "g" of section 18 of the amended by-laws of 1880, was approved.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2106.

By Order in Council of the 27th of March, 1900, in virtue of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the regulations established by Order in Council of the 28th December, 1893, respecting the oyster fishery, were amended by adding thereto the following clause, namely, that :

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10. The use of drags or dredges for the purpose of taking oysters on any public bed in Prince county, in the province of Prince Edward Island, be prohibited during the year 1900."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2106.

By Order in Council of Tuesday, the 10th of April, 1900, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the lobster fishery regulations established by Order in Council of 7th December, 1899, were amended by adding thereto the following

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"12. No one shall, for canning purposes, boil lobsters on board any ship, vessel, boat or floating structure of any description whatever, except under special license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

"13. No one shall prepare to fish for lobsters by placing or setting any ouoys, lines or other gear used in connection with such fishing, before the day on which it is lawful to take or catch lobsters in the locality affected."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2153.

By Proclamation dated the 3rd of April, 1900, the Harbour of Grand River, in the county of Gaspé, in the province of Quebec, was designated as a port to which the "Act respecting Harbour Masters" should apply, and the limits of the said port for harbour masters purposes were declared to embrace all the navigable portion of Grand River and the coast of Chaleurs Bay for a distance of three miles east and west of lighthouse at the mouth of the river

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxIII., p. 2151.

By Order in Council of the 3rd of April, 1900, it was ordered that the close season for black bass in the waters of the west end of Lake Erie, west of Point Pelee, and the waters around Pelee Island, in the province of Ontario, should be from May 25 to July 15, both days inclusive, in each year; notwithstanding the provisions of the Order in Council of May 15, 1895, whereby the close season for bass in the said province of Ontario was fixed from April 15 to June 15, both days inclusive, in each year.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2153.

By Order in Council of the 5th of April, 1900, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, it was ordered that the general fishery regulations for the province of Nova Scotia adopted by Order in Council of the 18th July, 1889, should be amended by adding thereto the following special fishery regulations for the county of Antigonish :

"Sec. 12a. County of Antigonish.

"1. The use of seines for the purpose of catching herring is prohibited in the waters of Harbour Bouché, or within one and one-half miles from any point in any direction whatever from an imaginary line drawn across the mouth of the said harbour; and the points between which the said line shall be drawn shall be fixed by the inspector of fisheries within whose division that part of the province of Nova Scotia lies."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2152.

By Proclamation dated the 3rd of April, 1900, the Port of Tiverton, in the province of Nova Scotia, was designated as a port to which the "Act respecting Harbour Masters" should apply, and the limits of the said port for harbour masters purposes were declared to embrace such of the waters of the

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Bay of Fundy, Petit Passage and St. Mary's Bay, as lie within a radius of two nautical miles of Boar's Head Lighthouse at the north end of Petit Passage.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2197.

By Order in Council of the 14th of April, 1900, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, section 3 of the general fishery regulations for the province of Manitoba and the North-west Territories, established by Order in Council of the 8th May, 1894, was amended by adding thereto the following:

"The use of tugs in netting operations or in any method of taking and capturing fish in Lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis is prohibited, except for the shipping of fish or the conveying of men to and from the fishing grounds." Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2200.

By Order in Council of the 1st of May, 1900, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the following amendments were made to the fishery regulations for the province of British Columbia :

Clauses 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the fishery regulations established by Order in Council of 29th March, 1899, were rescinded, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:

"1. Every applicant for a fishery license shall be (a) a British subject, resident in Canada, and a bona fide fisherman, and (6) shall personally enter his name and address in the register kept by the inspector of fisheries, or any authorized fishery officer. Before a license is issued to any applicant (c) the required fee shall be paid by the said applicant.

"2. Each bona fide fishernian, being a British subject duly registered, as required under clause 1, shall be entitled to one fishing license; but such fishing license shall be valid for one fisherman only, whose name is duly enrolled in terms of the conditions stated in clause 1, such name to be inscribed on the license by the inspector or authorized officer granting the same at the time of issue. Indians shall be exempt from registration or enrolment, required under clause 1 and this clause. Each firm, company or person engaged in the canning of salmon shall be entitled to ten fishing licenses in the said firm's, company's or person's name, and each of such licenses shall be valid for and used only by a fisherman whose name is duly enrolled or registered, or shall be valid for and used only by an Indian. Each fisherman fishing under a license obtained by a firm, company or person engaged in canning salmon shall be required to carry with him such license, and in addition shall be required to carry with him a certificate from the firm, company or person holding the license, that such registered fisherman, or such Indian is authorized to fish for them or him. Such license or certificate shall be exhibited to any authorized fishery officer when