And may use explosives.

And cause

vessel, etc., to be sold.

such means as he thinks fit, and may use gunpowder or other explosive substance for that purpose if he deems it advisable, and may cause such vessel, or its cargo, or anything causing or forming part of such obstruction or obstacle, to be conveyed to such place as he thinks proper, and to be there sold by auction or otherwise as he deems most advisable, and may Application apply the proceeds of such sale to make good the expenses incurred by him in placing and maintaining any signal or light to indicate the position of such obstruction or obstacle, or in the removal, destruction or sale of such vessel, cargo or thing, paying over any surplus of such proceeds to the owner of the vessel or thing sold, or other persons entitled to such proceeds or any part thereof, respectively."

of proceeds of sale.

Section 5 repealed. Recovery of costs if proceeds of sale

3. Section five of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :

"5. Whenever, under the provisions of this Act, the Minister of Marine and Fisheries has caused any signal or cient to defray light to be placed and maintained to indicate the position of

are insuffi

them.

From whom recoverable.

Disposal of

sum recover

ed.

any obstruction or obstacle, or has, with the authority of the Governor in Council, caused to be removed or destroyed any obstruction or obstacle to the navigation of any navigable water occasioned or in manner aforesaid likely to be occasioned by the wreck, sinking or lying ashore or grounding of any vessel or part thereof, or other thing, or, with such authority has caused to be removed any vessel or part thereof, wreck or other thing cast ashore, stranded or left upon any such public property as in the last preceding section mentioned, and the cost of placing and maintaining such signal or light or of removing or destroying such vessel or part thereof, wreck or other thing has been defrayed out of the public moneys of Canada, and the net proceeds of the sale under this Act of such vessel or its cargo, or the thing, which caused or formed part of such obstruction, are not, sufficient to make good the expenses incurred for the purposes aforesaid and the costs of sale, the amount by which such proceeds fall short of the expenses so defrayed as aforesaid, and such costs-or the whole amount of such expenses if there is nothing which can be sold as aforesaid-shall be recoverable with costs by the Crown from the owner of such vessel or other thing or from the managing owner or from the master or person in charge thereof at the time such obstruction or obstacle was occasioned, or from any person through whose act or fault, or through the act or default of whose servants such obstruction or obstacle was occasioned or continued; and any sum so recovered shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada."

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CHAP. 24.

An Act further to amend the Fisheries Act.

[Assented to 29th June, 1897.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

follows:

tion of R.S.C

1. Subsection two of section fifteen of The Fisheries Act, as Exception enacted by section one of chapter twenty-seven of the statutes from applica of 1895, shall not apply to the owners or employees of any saw- c. 95, s. 15. mill now constructed and in operation with respect to putting or permitting to pass, before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, any saw-dust or mill rubbish from such saw-mill into any waters which are on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, excepted from the operation of the said subsection.

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HER

CHAP. 25.

An Act further to amend the Patent Act.

[Assented to 29th June, 1897.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

repealed; and

1. Chapter eighteen of the statutes of 1888 is hereby 1888, c. 18 repealed, and section five of The Patent Act, chapter sixty-one R.S.C., c. 61, of the Revised Statutes, is hereby revived as it existed previous s. 5 revived. to the passing of the Act hereby repealed.

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