112 ON THE CHANNEL-FISHERIES. 



they are hereby required to appoint conservators 

 for the protection of any river or rivers, coast, bay, 

 or creek, within their respective manors. * 



Provided such conservators are sworn duly to 

 execute that office as aforesaid. 



Provided also, and it is hereby enacted, that 

 nothing in this act contained shall extend or be 

 construed to extend to prejudice or derogate from 

 the rights, interests, privileges, franchises, or au- 

 thority of any body or bodies politic, corporate, or 

 collegiate, or their successors, or to prohibit, de- 

 feat, alter, or diminish any power, authority, or 

 jurisdiction, which such body or bodies politic, 

 corporate, or collegiate, at the time of the passing 

 of this act, did or might lawfully claim, use, or 

 exercise in any river or rivers as aforesaid. 



Provided also, and it is hereby further enacted 

 and declared, that nothing in this act contained, 

 shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice 

 or derogate from the rights, interests, privileges, 

 franchises, or authority of the mayor and com- 

 monalty and citizens of the city of London, or 

 their successors, or the Lord Mayor of the said 

 city for the time being, or to prohibit, defeat, 

 alter, or diminish any power, authority, or juris- 

 diction, which at the time of the making this act, 



* It is, however, proper that the sessions should have a concur- 

 rent and controuling power with lords of manors, otherwise, 

 through ignorance or obstinacy, this part of the act might be 

 rendered nugatory. 



