collector shall be the warrant for examination and shipment of such chanks.

Penalty for export ing contrary to the

Ordinance.

Chanks laden before entry liable to be for

feited.

6. Every person who shall export chanks from this Island, except from any port mentioned in Schedule A, or from any port appointed by the Governor in Executive Council under section 4, or contrary to the requirements of seetion 5, shall be guilty of an offence punishable with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or with a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both. 7. If any chanks subject to the payment of any sums due as royalty in respect of exportation shall be laden or water-borne to be laden on board any ship before due entry shall have been made and warrant granted, or before such chanks shall have been duly cleared for shipment, or if such chanks shall not agree with the bill of entry, the same shall be liable to forfeiture together with the package in which they are contained. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to use any dredge or other apparatus of a like nature for the purpose of fishing collecting chauks pro- for or collecting chanks, and every person using any dredge or other apparatus of a like nature for such purpose shall be guilty of an offence punishable with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both; and every dredge or apparatus of a like nature so used as aforesaid shall be forfeited.

Use of dredge in

hibited

Penalties.

Collection of chanks,

béche-de-mer, coral, or shells in the seas

between Mannár and Chilaw prohibited.

9. It shall not be lawful for any person to fish for, dive for, or collect chanks, bêche-de-mer, coral, or shells in the seas within the limits defined in Schedule B hereto, and every person who shall fish for, dive for, or collect, or who shall use or employ any boat, canoe, raft, or vessel in the collection of chanks, bêche-de-mer, coral, or shells in the said seas, shall be guilty of an offence punishable with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both; and every boat, canoe, raft, or vessel so employed as aforesaid, together with all chanks, bêche-de-mer, coral, or shells unlawfully collected, shall be forfeited.

Penalties.

Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall prevent any person from collecting coral or shells from any portion of the said seas in which the water is of the depth of

Proviso.

Proviso.

one fathom or less. Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council from time to time or at any time, by notification in the Government Gazette, to alter the limits defined in Schedule B hereto, or exempt any portion or portions of the seas within the said limits from the operation of this Ordinance. 10. (1) Any chank, bêche-de-mer, coral, shell, boat, canoe, raft, vessel, dredge, or apparatus liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance may be seized by any officer of the customs or seized and detained at police, or by any headman, or by any person appointed for that purpose in writing by the government agent of the province or the assistant government agent of the district within which such seizure is made, and when seized shall be conveyed to the custom-house nearest to the place of seizure and there detained until the court having jurisdiction in the matter has determined whether the same shall or shall not be forfeited.

Chanks, &c., liable to forfeiture may be

the nearest custom

house.

Penalty on seizing officer neglecting to convey seizure to cus reasonable time.

tom-house within a

(2) If any such officer, headman, or person shall neglect to have any chank, bêche-de-mer, coral, shell, boat, canoe, raft, vessel, dredge, or apparatus seized by him conveyed to such custom house within a reasonable time, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred rupees. 11. (1) Every prosecution under this ordinance may be instituted in the police court of the division in which the offence was committed or where the offender is found, and such jurisdiction. court may by its order declare and adjudge any chank, bêche-de-mer, coral, shell, boat, canoe, raft, vessel, dredge, or apparatus seized and detained under this Ordinance to be forfeited, and such forfeiture may be in addition to any other punishment hereinbefore prescribed, anything in the Criminal Procedure Code to the contrary notwithstanding.

Police court to have

(2) All forfeitures may be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the police court may direct.

12. It shall be lawful for the court imposing a fine under this Ordinance to award to the informer any share not exceeding a moiety of so much of the fine as is actually recov ered and realised.

Informer's share.

Kankésanturai

Kayts

SCHEDULE A.

SCHEDULE B.

Jaffna
Pésálai

Eastward of a straight line drawn from a point six miles westward of Talaimannar to a point six miles westward from the shore two miles south of Talaivilla. Passed in Council the Nineteenth day of November, One thousand Eight hundred and Ninety.

H. L. CRAWFORD, Acting Clerk to the Council.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the Twenty-fifth day of November, One thousand Eight hundred and Ninety.

E. NOEL WALKER,

Colonial Secretary.

AUSTRALIA.

AN ACT to regulate the Pearl Shell and Bêche-de-mer Fisheries in Australasian Waters adjacent to the Colony of Queensland.

[Reserved, 20th January, 1888; Queen's assent proclaimed 19th July, 1888.]

51 Vic., No. 1. The Queensland Pearl Shell and Béche

de-mer Fisheries (Extra-territorial). Act

WHEREAS by certain Acts of the Parliament of the Colony of Queensland provision has been made for regulating the Pearl Shell and Bêche-de-mer Fisheries in the territorial waters of that Colony; And whereas, by reason of the geographical position of many of the Islands forming a portion of that Colony, vessels employed in such Fisheries are, in the prosecution of their business, sometimes within and sometimes beyond the territorial jurisdiction of Queensland: And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the

of 1888.
Preamble.

said Acts should extend and apply to such vessels during all the time during which they are so employed, and that for that purpose the provisions of said Acts, so far as they are applicable to extra-territorial waters, should be extended to such waters by an Act of the Federal Council of Australasia:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Federal Council of Australasia, assembled at Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title and commencement.

1. This act may be cited as "The Queensland Pearl Shell and Bechede-mer Fisheries (Extra territorial) Act of 1888," and shall commence and take effect on and from the date assent thereto being proclaimed in Queensland.

of Her Majesty's

Interpretation. 45 Vie., No. 2 (Queens land), s. 1.

"Australasian waters

2. In this Act the following terms shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the meanings set against them respectively; that is to say

"Australasian waters adjacent to Queensland." All Australasian waters within the limits described in the Schedule to adjacent to Queens. this Act, exclusive of waters within the territorial land." (Schedule.) jurisdiction of the Colony of Queensland;

NOTE. The Sections of this Act which are omitted contain further definitions of terms, and minute provisions as to licenses, contracts with seamen, the payment of wages, the reporting of deaths and desertions, and the legal process for the enforcement of the Act.

Limitation of act.

19. This act applies only to British ships, and boats attached to British ships.

THE SCHEDULE.

All waters included within a line drawn from Sandy Cape northward to the southeastern limit of the Great Barrier Reefs, thence following the line of the Great Barrier Reefs to their northeastern extremity near the latitude of nine and a half degrees south; thence in a north-westerly direction, embracing East Anchor and Bramble Cays, thence from Bramble Cays in a line west by south (south seventynine degrees west) true, embracing Warrior Reef, Saibai and Tuan Islands, thence diverging in a north-westerly direction so as to embrace the group known as the Talbot Islands, thence to and embracing the Deliverance Islands and onward, in a west by south directiou (true) to the meridian of one hundred and thirty eight degrees of east longtitude, and thence by the meridian southerly to the shore of Queensland.

AN ACT to regulate the Pearl-Shell and Beche-de-mer Fisheries in Australasian Waters adjacent to the Colony of Western Australia.

[Reserved 4th February, 1889; Queen's assent proclaimed 18th January, 1890.] 52 Vict. The WestAustralia Pearl Shell and Beche-demer Fisheries (Extra

ern

territorial) act of 1889.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by certain Acts of the Legislative Council of Western Australia provision has been made for regulating the Pearl-shell Fishery in the territorial waters of that Colony; And whereas vessels employed in such Fishery are, in the prosecution of their business, sometimes within and sometimes beyond the territorial jurisdiction of Western Australia; And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the said Acts should extend and apply to such vessels during all the time during which they are so employed, and that for that purpose the provisions of the said Acts, so far as they are applicable to extra territorial waters, should be extended to such waters by an Act of the Federal Council of Australasia;