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§;PPENDIX. 



FRESHWATER FISHERIES ACT, 8th. AUGUST, 1878. 



~OE it enacted b}^ the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual 

 -U and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as 

 follows : — 



1. This Act may be cited as the Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1878. 



2. This Act shall, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, be read as one with the Salmon Fishery Acts, 

 1861 to 1876. 



3. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland, nor, except as regards sub-sections four and five of section 

 eleven, and as regards section twelve, to the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the county of the city of Norwich. 



4. This Act shall come into operation from and immediately after the thirty-first day of December one thousand 

 eight hundred and seventy-eight. 



5. Sections eight and nine of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1861, (which relate to fishing with lights, spears, and 

 other prohibited instruments, and to using roe as a bait,) and section si.xtj'-four of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1865, 

 (which provides a close time for trout and char), shall, as amended by the subsequent Salmon Fishery Acts, apply 

 to trout and char in all waters within the limits of this Act; and the term "salmon river," as used in section sixty- 

 four of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1865, shall include any such water. 



6. The provisions of the Salmon Fishery Acts, 1865 and 1873, which relate to the formation, alteration, combi- 

 nation, and dissolution of fishery districts, and to the appointment, qualification, proceedings, and powers of conservators, 

 shall extend and apply to all waters within the limits of this Act frequented by trout or char; and the term "salmon 

 river" in the fourth and nineteenth sections of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1865, and in the twenty-sixth section of the 

 Salmon Fishery Act, 1873, shall mean any river frequented by salmon, trout, or char. 



7. In any fishery district subject to a board of conservators, the conservators shall have power to issue licences 

 for the day, week, season, or any part thereof, to all persons fishing for trout or char, and, in the event of the 

 power being exercised in any fishery district, the provisions of the thirty-third, thirty-fourth, thirty-fil'th, thirty-sixth, 

 and thirty-seventh sections of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1865, and of the twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, 

 and twenty-fifth sections of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1873, (relative to licences,) shall, with respect to such district, 

 be construed as if the words "trout or char" were inserted throughout after the word "salmon." 



Provided as follows: 



(i.) A licence to fish for salmon shall have effect as a licence to fish i'ur trout and char. 



(2.) The fee payable for a licence to fish for trout or char exclusively of salmon in any district shall not exceed 



one third of the maximum amount chargeable for fishing for salmon under the provisions of the 21st. 



section of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1873. 



8. The provisions of the thirtj'-first section of the Salmon Fishery Act, 18O5, and of the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, 

 and thirty-eighth sections of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1873, relative to the powers of water bailiffs, shall extend and 

 a])ply to all waters within the limits of this Act, as if the words "salmon river," wherever they occur in such sections, 

 included all waters frequented by salmon, trout, or char. 



9. The provisions of the thirty-fourth section of the Salmon Fisher)' Act, 1861, which empower any justice of 

 the peace upon information on oath to authorise the search of any premises, shall extend to all offences committed 

 or alleged to have been committed under this Act, and that section shall be construed and have effect as if the 

 word "salmon" included trout, char, and all freshwater fish. 



