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Boats proceeding to Fisheries, to be numbered, &c. and registered.
Penalty 40s.
Officer to return to Collector an Account of the same.
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‘LXI. And Whereas a great Number of Sail Boats and small Boats proceed every Year to the Fisheries on the Coasts of Ireland, and from the irregular Manner in which they shoot their Nets, the Fishery is greatly injured, and the Nets of other Fishermen are much damaged, and the Offenders cannot be discovered so as to be brought to Justice ;’ Be it enacted, That no Boat shall proceed to the said Fisheries, unless the Name of the Skipper and Number of the Boat is cut or painted in large Characters with White Lead and Oil, on the Stern of the said Boat, and the Number on the Oars and Buoys belonging to her; which Boat, and her Number and the Name of the Skipper, shall be registered with the Inspector or other Officer to be appointed for that Purpose, of the District wherein said Skipper shall reside; and in case any such Boat shall shoot any Net, or take any Fish, without having the Skipper's Name and her Number painted, and being registered as aforesaid, the Skipper of said Boat shall forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings, to be recovered and applied in the same manner as the other Penalties in this Act; and such Inspector or other Officer with whom such Boat shall be so registered, shall return an Account of the same to the Collector of the District in which such Inspector or other Officer shall reside, within One Month after such Boat shall have been registered as aforesaid, in order to be transmitted to the Commissioners of Fisheries.
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