{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698/section-V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698/section-V.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/10/14",
  "legislation_title": "Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698",
  "path": "section/V",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "Reasons for this Enactment.",
  "text": "Persons who since the Year 1685, have seized and detained Stages, Cook-Rooms, &c. to relinquish the same for the public Use.\nAnd whereas severall Inhabitants in Newfoundland and other Persons have since the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty five ingrossed and detained in their owne Hands and for their own private Benefit severall Stages Cook-Roomes Beeches and other Places in the said Harbours and Creeks (which before that time belonged to Fishing Ships) for takeing of Bait and fishing and curing their Fish to the great Prejudice of the Fishing Ships that arrive there in the Fishing Season and sometimes to the Overthrow of some of their Voyages and to the great Discouragement of the Traders there Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Person and Persons as since the said Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty five have or hath taken seized or detained any such Stage Cook Room Beech or other Place for taking Bait or fishing or for the drying curing or husbanding of Fish shall on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March relinquish quit and leave to the publick Use of the Fishing Ships arriveing there all and every the said Stages Cook-Rooms Beeches and other Places for taking Bait and fishing and for the drying curing and husbanding of Fish",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/10/14/section/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:24.994012+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}