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other corporal punishment as the justice shall 

 think fit : the nets and engines to be cut or de- 

 stroyed in presence of the justice; the banks, 

 dams, hedges, and stanks, to be demoUshed at 

 the charge of the offender, to be levied in like 

 manner: 1 G. st.2. c. 18. s. 14. Note. It is not 

 said who shall have the fish ; so that it seemeth 

 thej^ are forfeited to the king. 



-And no salmon out of the said rivers shall be 

 sent to London, under six pounds weight ; on- 

 pain that the sender, buyer, or seller, on the like 

 conviction, shall forfeit 5l. and the fish ; half to^ 

 the informer and half to the poor, by distress; 

 for want of sufficient distress, to be committed' 

 to the house of correction or gaol, to be kept to 

 hard labour for three months, if not paid in the 

 mean time^ Id. S. 15. 



And persons aggrieved may appeal to the 

 »ext Sessions. Id. S. 17. 



2. No salmon shaii be taken in the Humber,. 

 Ouze, Trent, Done, Aue, DarvYcnt, Wharfe, 

 Nid, Yore, Swale, Tees, Tine, Eden, or any other 

 water wherein salmon are taken, between Sept. 

 8 and Nov. 11. Nor shall any youna: salmon 

 be taken at millpools (nor in other places, 13. R. 

 ^. St. 1. c 19.) from Mid'Jprii to Midsummer^, 

 on pain of having the nets and engines burnt for 

 the first off'ence; for the second, imprisonment 

 for a cpiarter of a year: for the third, a whole^ 

 year; and, as the tresspass increaseth, so shall 

 the punishment. And overseers shall be assigned 

 to enquire thereof. i3. Ech 1. st. 1. c. 47. That 

 is, under the great seal, ai>d by autlrority of par- 

 Hameut. 2. Inst. 477- 



And no person shall put in the waters of Tha- 

 anise, Humber, Ou/e, Trent, nor any other 

 -ivaters; in any time of the year, any nets called 



