102 ON THE CHANNEL*FISHERIES. 



if any person or persons shall have in his, her, or 

 their possession, or on board any vessel or vessels 

 belonging to him, her, or them, whether com- 

 manded by the owner or any other person for him, 

 her, or them, such person or persons in whose pos- 

 session such unlawful net or nets, made contrary to 

 the said last recited act, shall be found, or the owner 

 thereof, or of such vessel, shall forfeit and pay the 

 sum of 50/., together with the forfeiture of such 

 nets, which shall be burnt by order of such magis- 

 trates in sessions aforesaid after conviction. And 

 if such unlawful net or nets shall be found on 

 board any vessel whatever, after 20 days' public 

 notice of this act shall be given by order of such 

 magistrates in the market or other common places 

 of every fishing town upon the coast of Devon and 

 Cornwall, the vessel and vessels on board of which 

 such nets shall be so found, shall be seized and 

 detained, forfeited, sold, and disposed of, as here- 

 after mentioned. And be it further enacted, that 

 an information on oath being given to any magis- 

 trate, by a conservator appointed under this act, 

 of the place or places, vessel or vessels, where such 

 illegal net or nets may be suspected to be de- 

 posited or secreted, it shall and may be lawful, and 

 any magistrate is hereby commanded to issue his 

 warrant or warrants to the constables of the parish 

 where such illegal nets are suspected to be, or to 

 any conservator or conservators appointed under 

 this act, and which constables or conservators are 

 hereby authorized to take any person or persons to 



