with the taking of bait used for codfishing, nor prevent angling for other purposes than those of trade and commerce :

2. Seines, nets or other fishing apparatus, shall not be set in such a manner or in such places as to obstruct the navigation with boats and vessels; and no boats or vessels shall be permitted to destroy or wantonly injure in any way, any seines, nets or other fishing apparatus lawfully set:

3. Stakes or other timbe placed for fishing purposes in any water shall be removed by the user within forty-eight hours after last using the same, or at the expiry of the fishing season :

4. The main channel or course of any stream shall not be obstructed by any nets or other fishing apparatus; and one-third of the course of any river or stream, and not less than two-thirds of the main channel at low tide, in every tidal stream shall always be left open, and no kind of fishing apparatus or material shall be used or placed therein; provided that weirs used exclusively for catching eels, and the usage of mill-dams for catching eels, shall be subject to interference only in cases where, and at times when, they injure other fisheries, or by completely barring any passage, shall deprive other weirs of a share in the run of eels; and such place, time and circumstances may be determined by any Fishery Officer :

5. No net or other device shall be so used as entirely to obstruct the. passage of fish to and from any of the waters of the Dominion by any of the ordinary channels connecting such waters, or debar their passage to and from accustomed resorts for spawning and increasing their species :

6. The catching, killing or molesting of fish when passing or attempting to pass through any fishway, or fish-pass, or in surmounting any obstacle or leaps the use of any invention to catch, kill or molest fish in the mill-heads and water courses appurtenant thereto, are hereby forbidden :

7. Bag-nets and trap-nets and fish-pounds are prohibited, except under special licenses for capturing deep-sea fishes other than salmon :

8. It shall not be lawful to fish for, catch or kill salmon, trout (or "lunge") of any kind, maskinonge, winnoniche, bass, bar-fish, pickerel, white-fish, herring or shad by means of a spear, grapnel hooks, negog or nishagans: Provided, the Minister may appropriate and license or lease certain waters in which certain Indians shall qe allowed to catch fish for their own use in and at whatever manner and time are specified in the license or lease, and may permit spearing in certain localities:

9. No person shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess the young of any of the fish named in this Act, or in any regulation or regulations under it:

10. Seines for bar-fish shall have meshes of not less than three inches extension measure

11. Fishery Officers may determine or prescribe the distance between each and every fishery, and shall forthwith remove any fishery which the owner neglects or refuses to remove, and such owner shall be moreover liable for a breach of this Act, and for the cost and damages of removing the same:

12. Every fascine fishery with a box-tray (coffre), instead of pound, shall have across the outside end of such box (coffre) a wire covering or a net work, the meshes of which shall be at least one inch square; but this shall not apply to eel wires during autumn :

13. Nets or other fishing apparatus shall not be so used as to impede or divert the course of fish in any small rivers :

14. From the time of low water nearest six of the clock in the evening on every Saturday, to the time of low water nearest six of the clock in the morning on every Monday, in tidal waters, and from six of the clock in the evening on every Saturday to six of the clock in the morning of the following Monday, in fresh water,-seines, nets, or other apparatus used for catching fish shall be so raised or adapted as to admit to the free passage of fish through, past, or out of the same, for the puprose of affording, a free pass from six of the clock on every Saturday evening to six of the clock on every following Monday Morning; and during this close time it shall be unlawful to catch fish by such means and any fish so taken, caught or killed, together with the nets or other apparatus used, shall be forfeited, in addition to the penalties imposed by this Act.

INJURIES TO FISHING GROUNDS AND POLLUTION OF RIVERS.

14. Whoever throws overboard ballasts, coal, ashes, stones or other prejudscial or deleterious substances, in any river, harbour or roadstead, or any water where fishing is carried on, or throws overboard, or lets fall upon any fishing bank or ground, or leaves, or deposits, or causes to be thrown, left or deposited upon the shore, beach or bank of any water, or upon the beach between high and low water mark, inside of any tidal estuary, or within two hundred yards of the month of any solmon river, remains or offals of fish, or of marine animals, or leaves decayed, or decaying fish in any net or other fishing apparatus, shall incur for any such offence a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than two months; and every person so doing, whether master or servant, and the master or owner of any vessel or boat from which such

ballast, or offals or other prejudicial substance are thrown, shall severally become liable for each offence: Provided always, that it shall be lawful to bury such remains, or offals ashore, beyond high water mark, and at establishments situated inside of the mouth of rivers, for carrying on deep sea fisheries, to drop the same into perforated boxes or inclosures built upon the beach, or under stageheads, in such manner as to prevent the same from being floated or drifted into the streams, or to dispose of them in such other manner as may be prescribed by any Fishery Officer.

2. Lime, chemical substances or drugs, poisonous matter, (liquid or solid), dead or decaying fish; or any other deleterious substance, shall not be drawn into, or allowed to pass into, be left or remain in any water frequented by any of the kinds of fish mentioned in this Act; and saw-dust or mill-rubbish shall not be drifted or thrown into any stream frequented by fish, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars: Provided always, that the Minister shall have power to exempt from the operation of this sub-section, wholly or from any portion of the same, any stream or streams in which he considers that its enforcement is not requisite for the public interest:

3. Whoever at any time between the first day of June and the thirtieth day of September, of any year, kindles, makes or places any fire in or near any wood, trees, brushwood or any wild or uncultivated land, at any place north of the River or Gulf of St. Lawrence, to the east or north of the Saguenay River, or any of the islands below or to the eastward of Red Island, within the said river or gulf, whereby the fire spreads or extends through standing trees, brushwood or scrub, to a distance exceeding one arpent, shall, for such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and shall besides be responsible to the Crown, or whoever may be the owner of the land, for all damages occasioned by such fire: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent proprietors or those having licenses to cut timber or wood from burning the wood, trees or brush wood on their own land, or otherwise using fire to clear their lands without injury or prejudice to their neighbors.

32 AND 33 VIC. CHAP. 29.

136. When any felony punishable under the laws of Canada has been committed within the jurisdiction of any Court of Admiralty in Canada, the same may be dealt with, inquired of and tried and

determined in the same manner as any other felony committed within that jurisdiction.

STEAMBOAT INSPECTION ACT.

42 VIC., CHAP. 35.

An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting the inspection of Steamboats, and the examination and licensing of Engineers employed on them.

[Assented to 17th May, 1882.]

For the greater security of life and property on board steamboats navigating the waters of the Dominion of Canada, or owned or registered in the Dominion of Canada, and departing from or arriving at any port or place in the Dominion of Canada: Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

EXTENT AND APPLICATION OF ACT.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Steamboat Inspection Act, 1882," and shall extend and apply to the whole Dominion of Canada, including Manitoba and the Northwest Territories and Keewatin.

2. This Act shall be construed as being passed in amendment of the Act thirty-first Victoria, chapter sixty-five, intituled "An Act respecting the Inspection of Steamboats, and for the greater safety of passengers by them," as amended by the Acts thirty-second and thirty-third Victoria, chapter thirty-nine; thirty-sixth Victoria, chapters seven and fifty three; thirty-seven Victoria, chapter thirty; fortieth Victoria, chapter eighteen, and forty-fourth Victoria, chapter twenty-one, which are hereby superseded and repealed (except as hereinafter provided) with every other Act, enactment or provision inconsistent with this Act, -ana as being a consolidation of the amendments hereby made portions of the said Acts which are herein reenacted, and of such orders in Council made under them as are herein incorporated, all of which shall be construed as declaratory of the existing law; and all appointments made and all things

lawfully done under the provisions of law then in force, shall remain valid, unless and until it is otherwise ordered by or under this Act, and all proceedings commenced under them may be continued and completed, as if this Act had not been passed, only the amendments hereby made having effect as new law.

3. In this Act the word " "steamboat includes any vessel used in navigation or afloat on navigable water, and propelled or moveable wholly or in part by steam, the word "owner "includes the lessee or charterer of any such vessel; and the word "year" means the calendar year, commencing on the first day of January, and ending on the thirty-first day of December.

4. This Act shall not apply to steamboats belonging to Her Majesty the Queen, nor to steamboats registered in Great Britain and Ireland or in any foreign country, and plying between any port or place in the Dominion of Canada:

(2.) And all steam yachts, used exclusively for pleasure or private use without hire or remuneration of any kind, all tug boats, all steamboats carrying freight only hereinafter called freight boats) and under one hundred and fifty tons gross, and all steamboats used only for fishing purposes or the carrying of fish, and under one hundred and fifty tons gross, and steam dredges and elevators or vessels of like kind, shall be exempt from the requirements of this Act, except as regards the inspection of their boilers and machinery, to which they shall be subject at least once in each year, and oftener if required, under the same provisions and penalties for neglect as other steamboats, and except also as to the obligation to carry one life-buoy hereinafter imposed on all steamboats..

5. The Governor in Council may direct that any steamboat not registered in the Dominion, but employed in the Dominion of Canada in carrying mails, passengers or troops, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act.

APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF INSPECTORS.

6. The Governor in Council shall, from time to time, appoint at each of such places, and to act respectively within such local limits, as he may find advisable, within the Dominion of Canada, a skilled person or skilled persons competent to inspect the boilers and machinery employed in steamboats, who shall not be interested in the manufacture of steam engines, boilers or other machinery belonging to steamboats, and whose duty it shall be to make such inspection as hereinafter prescribed, and to give to the owner or master two of the certificates of such inspection, and also a skilled person or skilled persons competent to inspect the hulls and equipment of steamboats, who shall not be interested in the building or construction of hulls of steamboats, or of any article or thing hereinafter mentioned as part of