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(2) and no fixed engine of any description shall be placed in tidal 

 waters between sunset on Saturday and sunrise on Monday : provided 

 that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by notification made 

 in the Fort St. George Gazette, to exempt auy tidal water from tlie 

 operation of this clause; 



(3) and no fixed engine other than fixed nets of legal meshes shall, 

 for the purpose of catching fish, be set on or near the banks of, or 

 between high and low water marks of, any tidal waters ; 



(4) and any engine placed or used in contravention of this section 

 may be taken possession of or destroyed; and any engine so placed or used, 

 and any fish taken by such engine, shall be forfeited, and in addition 

 thereto, the owner of any engine placed or used in contravention of this 

 section shall, for each day of so placing or using the same, incur a 

 penalty not exceeding one hundred rupees. 



14. When fish or the young of fish are led aside out of a main 

 stream by means of any artificial channel used for irrigation, or for the 

 purpose of supplying towns with water, or for supplying any navigable 

 canal, the revenue authorities shall determine whether it is necessary to 

 place and maintain gratings before such diversions of water, or to make 

 and maintain a free passage therefrom to the main stream, in what man- 

 ner the same shall be done, and by whom, and at whose cost, in whole 

 or part ; and after the expiration of a period of six months from the 

 commencement of this Act, any person or persons failing to put a grat- 

 ing or gratings, or to make a free passage in cases where they are 

 required to do so by this section, shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty 

 rupees for every day after the expiration of such period of six months, 

 during which he fails to comply with the provisions of this section ; and 

 any such person failing so to maintain the same shall incur a penalty not 

 exceeding ten rupees for every day during which such failure continues : 

 provided always that no such grating shall be so placed as to interfere 

 with the passage of boats on any navigable canal. 



15. Penalty on netting near dams. — No person shall catch or 

 attempt to catch, except by rod and line, any fish within one hundred 

 yards of any dam ; and if any person acts in contravention of this provi- 

 sion, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty rupees for each offence, 

 shall forfeit all fish caught in contravention of this section, and all nets 

 or other instruments used or placed for catching the same. 



16. Penalty on taking undersized fish. — No person shall wilfully 

 take, destroy, injure, buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in his posses- 

 sion any fish declared, by notification of the Governor in Council in the 

 Port St. George Gazette, to be under-sized fish. 



17. Power to make bye-laws. — For the better application of 

 this Act, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make 

 from time to time, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, any 

 bye-law not repugnant to the tenor of this Act. 



18. Power to impose taxes. — From the date of the commencement 

 of this Act, it shall be lawful to collect the following dues from all persons 

 fishing in waters which are the property of Government : — For every drag 

 or wall net (&c, &c, as in paragraph 139 of the report) not more than 

 nine rupees per annum (and so on as in paragraph 139 of the report), the 

 rates only being trebled. 



