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preceding section, or who exports or causes to be exported any skin of a beaver, shall, upon conviction, for a first offence, be imprisoned for two months with hard labor, with the option of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and not less than two hundred dollars; for a second offence the penalty shall be imprisonment for one year with hard labor, together with a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than two hundred dollars.

take beavers for

obtained

3. Upon a requisition in writing made to the Minister of Permission to Marine and Fisheries, permission may be granted to any societies may be Scientific or Zoological Body or Society to hunt and capture not more than six live beavers for exportation from the Colony or otherwise.

powers of

4. Any Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Policeman, Cus- Respeeting toms' Officer or Game Warden who believes or has reason to searching. believe that any beaver or beaver skins are in or upon any house, shop, store, wharf or premises, vessel, boat, or in any package or luggage in contravention of this Act, may enter upon such house, shop, store, premises, vessel or boat, using, if necessary, sufficient force for the purpose, and search therein and open and examine the contents of any package or luggage, and should any beaver or beaver skins be found thereon or therein, unless the owner or lessee of such house, store, wharf premises, boat, vessel, package or luggage, can show that the said beaver or beaver skins have been placed there without his knowledge and consent, the said owner or lessee, upon conviction, for a first offence, shall be imprisoned for two months with hard labor, with the option of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars; for a second offence the penalty shall be imprisonment for one year with hard labor, together with a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than two hundred dollars.

recovery of penalties.

5. The penalties under this Act shall be sued for and re- Procedure for covered in a summary manner before a Magistrate or Justice by any person, and one-half of the money penalty shall be awarded and paid to the person who shall prosecute an

Possession prima facie evidence.

Confiscation of skins.

Exportation of. confiscated skins.

offender to conviction. The Magistrate or Justice before whom a conviction is had shall have power to award such one-half of the penalty to the said person.

6. If within the period mentioned in the first section of this Act, any person shall have in his possession any beaver or skin, or carcase of a beaver, such possession shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of said section.

7 In addition to the penalties herein before provided, all beavers and beaver skins found in the possession of any person in contravention of this Act shall be confiscated.

8. Whenever under any conviction under this Act, any skins or skin are confiscated, the same may be exported by the usual export entry.

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E is enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to gua- Respecting cer tain guarantee rantee, on behalf of the Colony, for one or more years, not to cold storage exceeding fifteen, the annual payment to any person, firm or companies. company engaged in the business of Cold Storage and other business connected with the fisheries and bait supply of the Colony, of a sum by which the nett annual profits of such person, firm or company may be less than five per cent. on the capital invested by any such person or paid up in any such company, provided that the total amount of such guarantee to all persons or companies shall be limited to an amount of capital which shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. Such guarantee shall be subject to such terms and conditions, as to the annual volume of work, class of fish handled, prices to be paid for fish, countries to which fish is to be exported, and location of plants, as to the Governor in Council may appear expedient.

exempt from

2. All plant, machinery, implements, apparatus, supplies Machinery to be and material necessary for the original installation of the duty. business of such person, firm or company shall be admitted into the Colony free of duty.

tracts for

operation of

3. The Governor in Council may enter into contracts with Respecting conany person, firm or company for the construction, equipment maintenance and and maintenance in good and efficient working order of pub- plants. lic cold storage plants, stores or warehouses equipped with refrigeration in Newfoundland, and suitable for the preservation of all fish bait and food products.

4. The locations, plans and specification of every such Location and plans to be plant, store or warehouse, its equipmeut and the amount to subject to be expended thereon, shall be subject to the approval of the approval, Governor in Council.

suasidies.

5 The Governor in Council may, out of any moneys ap- Respecting propriated by the Legislature for the purpose, grant towards the construction of any such plant, store, or warehouse, a subsidy not exceeding, in the whole, thirty per cent. of the amount expended or approved of in such construction and equipment and payable in instalments as follows:-Upon

Respecting inspection.

Rates and tolls to be subject to approval.

Governor in Council may make rules.

such plant, store or warehouse being completed, and cold storage at suitable temperatures being provided therein, all to the satisfaction of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, a sum not exceeding fifteen per cent of the amount so expended; and at the end of the first year thereafter, the balance of the said thirty per cent., provided the plant, store or warehouse is maintained and operated to the satisfaction of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

6. The Minister of Marine and Fisheries may order and cause to be maintained an inspection and supervision of the sanitary conditions, maintenauce and operation of such plant: store or warehouse, and may regulate and control the temperatures to be maintained therein, in accordance with the regulations to be made as hereinafter provided.

7. The rates and tolls to be charged in such plant, store or warehouse, shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council.

8. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as he considers necessary in order to secure the sufficient enforcement and operation of this Act, and he may by such regulations impose penalties not exceeding fifty dollars on any person offending against them, and the regulations so made shall be in force from the date of their publication in the Royal Gazette, or from such other date as is specified in the Proclamation in that behalf.

CAP. XXXII.

An Act Respecting Pilotage Rates for the Port of St. John's.

SECTION

1. Power to commissioners to purchase pilot boat

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[PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910 ]

SECTION

2. Additional pilotage rate to main-
tain pilot boat.

WHEREAS the Commissioners of Pilots for the Port of Preamble. St. John's are desirous of appropriating from the funds under their control the sum of four thousand dollars for the purpose of the purchase of a suitable pilot boat propelled by steam or other power, and are desirous of obtaining an increase of the pilotage rates for the purpose of the maintenance of the said pilot boat;

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Enacting clause. Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session

convened, as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Pilots to Power to commissioners to

boat.

appropriate from the funds under their control the sum of purchase pilot four thousand dollars for the purpose of the purchase and equipment of a pilot boat propelled by steam or other power.

2. In addition to the amounts already payable by all ves- Additional pilotage rate sels at present liable to pilotage entering or leaving the port to maintain of St. John's, there shall be paid for every such vessel a fur- pilot boat. ther sum equal to ten per cent. of its present rate, and the amount of such additional sum shall be taken and held by the Commissioners for the purposes of the maintenance of the said pilot boat.

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