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pound, and a young fish of the genus Thymallus at 1 kreuzer 2 pfennige, 

 (nearly 2 cents,) &c. 



With fish imported from Bohemia or Bavaria, the regulations regard- 

 ing size have nothing to do. The ordinances regarding the proper car- 

 rying-out of all the provisions of the fishing-law by specially appointed 

 fish-masters are very strict. 



For the lakes, there were special fish-laws. Such a law was passed in 

 1544 for the Mond Lake in Upper Austria. 



Wheu, in 1858, the district officers of Upper Austria were asked to 

 report on the fishing-privileges in their respective sections, the officer 

 in whose district the Mond Lake is located reported that the law of 1544 

 was still in force on this lake so far as police-regulations were concerned ; 

 that, as a general rule, these ordinances were well observed, and were 

 in many respects more practical than the draught of the new law which 

 had been sent to him. 



The jurisdiction over the Mond Lake belongs partly to the archbishop 

 of Salzburg and partly to the abbot of the Mond Lake convent. Of 

 the fines, one-third belongs to the archbishop and two-thirds to the 

 abbot, exactly in the same manner as the division of fines prescribed in 

 the law-books of Charlemagne, is made between the country law-courts 

 and the lords of the manor. In the country-sessions, the fishery-courts 

 are held every year, and the mutual rights and duties of the lords and 

 other proprietors are defined. 



Quarrels and abuses were the causes which, in 1544, led to the fisheries 

 being regulated anew by a treaty between Archbishop Ernst of Salzburg 

 and Sigmuud, abbot of the Mond Lake convent. 



The owners of the buildings called segena houses, do not possess the 

 right to fish iu the lake as a free property, nor after the manner of a 

 lease, but as a hereditary privilege, and have in exchange to render 

 service to the lords of the manor. 



To the archbishop, and to his hereditary lessees, there belong 5£ fish- 

 eries ; to the abbot of the Mond Lake convent, 10 fisheries ; and to the 

 Lord of Thury, 1. The abbot possesses, besides the 10 fisheries men- 

 tioned, which it seems were all rented on hereditary leases, two large 

 fisheries, which supply the convent with fish, called the dipper and the 

 long segena. 



The length of each of these segenw (seines) is accurately described. 

 The clipper may be 360 feet long, and the " long segena" 27G feet. With 

 the dipper, fishing was permitted during Lent, from the fourth Sunday 

 thereof till Easter; at other times, only when the reigning prince comes 

 to the Mond Lake. Fishing with the long segena was permitted twice a 

 week, from Saint George's till Saint Michael's Day, (29th September.) 



Every hereditary lessee has one broad segena 1G8 to 180 feet long, and a 

 narrow segena 120 to 138 feet long. The size of the meshes iu each 

 segena is fixed very accurately according to the measure given in the 

 fishery-law. Besides drag-nets and bow-nets, stationary nets are per- 



