Department of Customs.

By Order in Council of the 4th of June, 1902, in virtue of the provisions of subsection (1) of section 245 of the Customs Act, refined cotton seed oil (edible) for canning fish, was transferred to the list of goods which may be imported into Canada free of duty, until otherwise provided.

Vide Canada Gazette,.vol. xxxv., p. 2467.

Department of Finance.

Department of Finance.

By Order in Council of the 31st of December, 1900, under the provisions of the Bank Act Amendment Act, 1900, an agreement, dated the 15th day of December, 1900, between the Bank of British Columbia and the Canadian Bank of Commerce, was approved, and a proposed increase of the capital stock of the Canadian Bank of Commerce from six million dollars to eight million dollars in order to provide for the payment to the Bank of British Columbia of two million dollars of fully paid-up shares of the Canadian Bank of Commerce as provided in the said agreement was also approved.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 132.

Fisheries.

Fisheries (Department of Marine and Fisheries).

By Order in Council of the 13th of September, 1901, section 4 of the oyster fishery regulations established by the Order in Council of the 28th December, 1893, was rescinded, and the following substituted therefor :

4. "Oysters shall not be fished for, caught, killed, bought, sold or had in possession on and from the 1st day of June to the 22nd day of September, in each year, both days inclusive."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 555.

By Order in Council of the 28th of September, 1901, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the general fishery regulations for the province of Manitoba and the North-west Territories, established by Order in Council of the 8th May, 1894, were amended by providing that the close season for whitefish in the waters of the districts of Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the North-west Territories, situated north of the main great Saskatchewan River and its north branch, shall be from the 5th of October to the 15th of November in each year, both days inclusive.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 609.

By Order in Council of the 22nd of October, 1901, under the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the following fishery regulation was made and established:

"Fishing for clams and quahaugs in bays, harbours and other waters within the Dominion of Canada, where oysters are taken, shall be permitted only on areas set apart and marked out by the local fishery officer for the respective districts in which such fishing is prosecuted."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 788.

By Order in Council of the 14th of November, 1901, in virtue of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, section 8 of the oyster fishery regulations established by Order in Council of the 28th of December, 1893, was rescinded and the following substituted in lieu thereof:

"No person shall dig mussel mud within 200 yards from any live oyster bed, and then only at such place or places as may be prescribed in writing by a fishery officer.

Fisheries.

"No person shall dig mussel mud in Trout River, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Peter Miller's Middle Point to a point of land at the end of Yeo's Port Ash Road.

"No person shall dig mussel mud in Bideford River, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, excepting above a line drawn from Bideford shipyard to Colin McKay's point including Pawes Creek."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 932.

By Order in Council of the 15th of January, 1902, in virtue of the Act 55-56 Victoria, chapter 3, intituled "An Act respecting fishing vessels of the United States," the issue was authorized to United States fishing vessels during the calendar year 190? of licenses for the purposes provided for by the said Act, 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 December, 1902.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 1418.

By Order in Council of the 1st of April, 1902, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, a fishery regulation made by Order in Council of 8th February, 1902, was rescinded, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:

"Fishing with nets of any kind in the lakes and tributary streams of Missisquoi (excepting in Missisquoi Bay), Shefford, Brome, Drummond, Richmond, Wolfe, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Compton, Megantic and Beauce, in the province of Quebec, is prohibited.

"And no night lines used in the above prohibited districts to have more than 100 hooks each."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 2035.

By Order in Council of the 12th of April, 1902, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the following regulation for the protection of fish against the use of dynamite, was made and established:

1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to procure or have in possession on board of any boat or vessel or elsewhere within Canada, any dynamite or other explosive material with the intention of using or attempting to use or allowing or permitting the same to be used or attempted to be used for the purpose of catching or killing or attempting to catch or kill any kind of fish, sheil-fish or marine animal.

Fisheries.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to put or place or have upon or in any boat or vessel engaged or employed or intended to be engaged or employed in fishing, any dynamite or other explosive material.

3. In case any such dynamite or other explosive shall be found or proved to be, or to have been, in or upon any such boat or vessel, the master and the owner thereof shall each be liable for the penalty provided for breach of the last preceding regulation, as well as any other person or persons who may have put or placed such dynamite or other explosive upon or in the said boat or vessel or had the same in possession therein.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 2083.

By Order in Council of the 4th of June, 1902, in virtue of the provisions of section 16 of the Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the following fishery regulation was made for the province of British Columbia:

Fishing by means of nets of any kind or description is prohibited in:

(a.) The waters of Victoria Harbour inside of an imaginary line running from Macaulay Point to Clover Point, and embracing all the waters to the head of Victoria Arm, including the inlet; and

(b.) the waters of the estuary of Cowichan River, including Cowichan Bay, within an imaginary line running from Serpentine Point to Cowichan Head.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 2466.