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Nfld, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a magistrate appointed from among the captains at the fisheries.
See: floating surrogate
Quotations
1793
The governor conferred on them the title of surrogates, an idea taken from the admiralty-law; to which, and which alone the naval governors were in the habit of looking, and under which it had long been a notion, that the fishery, as an admiralty concern, ought to be regulated.
1818
The Admiral always selects the best-informed Captain for the fulfillment of this arduous service; and the Surrogate has power to levy fines under the amount of fifty or sixty pounds.