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to fnime them ; and to specify the waters to which he 

 recommends their apph'cation. His proposals should be 

 supported by reasons in each case as indicated in the 

 preceding paragraph and should be forwarded through 

 the Collector of the district concerned. 



6. Pending the application of such rules to particular 

 waters, all officers of the Revenue and the Public Works 

 Departments will be directed to take such action as 

 they think practicable to prevent the use of fixed 

 engines and the capture of immature fish. In all waters 

 in which rights of fishery are let by Government the 

 conditions of the lease should prohibit methods of fishing 

 which are considered objectionable. In all waters 

 registered as poramboke, the occupation of any portion 

 of the bed by the erection of fixed engines or the con- 

 struction of weirs should be treated as an encroachment 

 and dealt with under section 6 of the Encroachments 

 Act, 1905 ; unless the person in occupation of the bed 

 can establish a customary right to so "occupy it. In 

 navigable waters persons who obstruct a public line of 

 navigation by the erection of stake nets can be prosecuted 

 under section 283 of the Indian Penal Code. 



Order— No. 1157, Revenue, dated 15TH May 1915. 



The following notification will be published in the 



Fort St. George, Kistna, Cuddapah, Kurnool, Bellary, 



Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Salem, Nellore, Coimbatore, 



Malabar, South Canara and the Nilgiris District 



Gazettes : — 



NOTIFICATION. 



The following draft rules which His Excellency the Governor in 

 Council proposes to make under section 6 of the Indian Fisheries 

 Act, 1897, in respect of the waters specified below are published for 

 ofeneral information. They will be taken into consideration after one 

 month from the date of publication. Any representations regarding 

 the save should be addressed to the Secretary to Government, 

 Revenae Department : — 



Rules. 



I. No person shall erect or use any fixed engine or construct any 

 weir for the purpose of catching fish in any of the following waters 

 which is not ' private water' : — 



(i) the Kistna and the Tungabhadra rivers and their tributaries 

 in the Kurnool district : 



(2) the Tungabhadra river and its tributaries in the Bellary 

 district : 



(3) the Penner and its tributaries in the Cuddapah district : 



