II. - OFFENCES AND FINES

T 3 09. No person shall suffer live stock of any kind to stray or run at large between high and low-water mark, in the summer or autumn, on any of the said beaches of the river St. Lawrence, under a penalty of fifty cents, for each animal so allowed to stray or run at large, as aforesaid.

Such penalty shall be recovered from the possessor or owner of such live stock. R. S. Q., 5538.

*7310. If such owner or possessor is not known, the live stock so straying may be confined by any person, until they are claimed by the owner or possessor, who shall pay to the person so detaining them, the reasonable expenses for the keeping thereof, which sum, if the owner or possessor refuses to pay, shall be levied in the manner provided for the penalties imposed by thi6 subsection. R. S. Q., 5539.

7311. Ail persons detaining any cattle found straying, shall give notice thereof at the church door of the nearest parish, on a Sunday or other holiday after divine service in the forenoon ; and if such cattle be not claimed, and such expenses paid, within eight days after such notice, then the said cattle may be sold by order of any justice of the peace, and the price, after deducting such expenses and those of the notice, shall remain in the hands of such justice of the peace, for the owner of such cattle when known. R. S. Q., 5540.

7312. This subsection shall not affect the rights of His Majesty, or of any person or corporation, in any such beach or strand of the said river St. Lawrence. R. S. Q., 5541.

7313. This subsection shall not give to the proprietors of the banks of the said river, any right or title to enclose or embank, by fences or otherwise, the said beaches and strands, or in any manner to impede the free and open

Party in possession on the 21st March, 1836, to retain it.

No live stock to be allowed to stray on such beaches.

Recovery of penalty.

In case owner of straying animais be unknown.

Duty of persons finding straying cattle.

Rights of His Majesty, &c., preserved.

Nothing herein to authorize the enclosing of such beaches.

How penalties shall be recovered.

Application of penalties.

Penalty for trespassing

Watereourses and

their banks to be thoroughfares.

Arrest of offenders.

navigation and commerce over the said river, to ail His Majesty’s subjects, or to deprive any person of the free use of the beaches of the said river St. Lawrence, as by law provided. R. S. Q., 5542.