104 ON THE CHANNEL-FISHERIES. 



outrage committed on or injury done to such peace- 

 officer or officers or conservator in the execution of 

 his or their duty under this act ; and shall forfeit the 

 sum of 20/. for such obstruction on any conservator. 

 And be it further enacted, that after notice of this 

 act shall be given to any maker or manufacturer of 

 fishing nets, if he, she, or they shall make or ma- 

 nufacture any trawl net or nets with a mesh contrary 

 to the said last recited statute, or any other net or 

 nets contrary thereto, or the same net or nets in 

 part or entire, can or shall be found in his, her, or their 

 possession, or on his, her, or their premises, or at any- 

 other place within his, her, or their knowledge, after 

 such notice as aforesaid, he, she, or they, shall forfeit 

 and pay the sum of 50/. for the first offence, and 

 100/. for every other offence, to be levied, seized, 

 and disposed of after conviction, by the court of 

 sessions aforesaid, as hereafter mentioned, together 

 with the said nets, which shall be publicly burnt 

 by order of the magistrates in sessions aforesaid. 

 And be it further enacted, that nothing contained 

 in this act shall extend, or be deemed or construed 

 either to legalize any fish-hook, coop, bay, or other 

 work which shall have been erected, put, placed, 

 fixed, or used in any such arm of the sea, or 

 estuary or mouth of any river, or in, or upon any 

 bank, sand, or shore thereof, or near thereto, or in 

 or near any river, rivulet, brook, stream, pond, 

 pool, lead-mill, dam, sluice, or cut which runs into, 

 or otherwise communicates therewith, or to the 

 present modes or methods used for taking and 



