2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall refuse, upon requisition made by the governor, or any officer or officers acting under him, in pursuance of his Majesty’s orders or instructions as aforesaid, to depart from within the limits aforesaid, or otherwise to conform to such requisition and directions as such governor, or other officer as aforesaid, shall make or give, for the purposes aforesaid, every such person or persons so refusing, or otherwise offending against the same, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred pounds, to be recovered in the court of session, or court of vice admiralty in the said island of _Newfoundland_, or by bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at _Westminster_; one moiety of such penalty to belong to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to such person or persons as shall sue or prosecute for the same: Provided always, that every such suit or prosecution, if the same be commenced in _Newfoundland_, shall be commenced within three months, and if commenced in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at _Westminster_, within twelve months from the time of the commission of such offence. 29 GEO. III. Cap. 53. _An act for further encouraging and regulating the ~Newfoundland~, ~Greenland~, and southern whale fisheries._ [Sidenote: Preamble. No fish, unless caught by subjects of _Great Britain_, or of the _British_ dominions in _Europe_, to be landed or dried at _Newfoundland_, the right as ceded to the _French_ excepted.] Whereas, as well by immemorial usage as by the provisions of former laws, the right and privilege of drying fish on the island of _Newfoundland_ do not belong to any of his Majesty’s subjects arriving there, except from _Great Britain_, or one of his Majesty’s dominions in _Europe_; for preventing frauds, and thereby better securing to his Majesty’s said subjects of _Great Britain_, and of the other _British_ dominions in _Europe_, the full advantages of the fishery carried on from thence, and of drying fish on the shores of the island of _Newfoundland_, be it declared and enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That no fish, taken or caught by any of his Majesty’s subjects, or other persons, arriving at _Newfoundland_ or its dependencies, or on the banks of the said island, except from _Great Britain_, or one of the _British_ dominions in _Europe_, shall be permitted to be landed or dried on the said island of _Newfoundland_, always excepting the rights granted by treaty to the subjects of his most Christian Majesty on that part of the island of _Newfoundland_ beginning at _Cape Saint John_, passing to the north and descending by the western coast of the said island to the place called _Cape Raye_.