APPENDIX A 



ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO 



VICTORIA REGIN^ 



CAP. XCII. 



An Act for the Protection of Mussel Fisheries in Scothmd. 



[2 2d July 1847.] 



Whereas Mussel Fisheries in Scotland have been the 

 Subject of Royal Grant and of private Right : And where- 

 as it is expedient that certain of the Provisions of an Act 

 passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Third and 3 & 4 Vict. 

 Four Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, for the ^' '^^' 

 better Protection of Oyster Fisheries in Scotland^ should be 

 extended and apply to the Mussel Fisheries of Scotland : 

 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 

 Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords 

 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, 

 That if any Person in that Part of the United Kingdom Persons un- 

 called Scotla?td shall wilfully, knowingly, and wrongfully [^]!-^';'g^ius. 

 take and carry away any Mussels or Mussel-Brood from seis from 

 any Mussel Bed, Scalp Laying, or Fishery, being the deemed 

 Property and in the lawful Occupation of any other Person f.'^^'/ °^ 

 or Persons or Body Corporate or Politic, and sufficiently 

 marked out or known as such, every such Offender shall 

 be deemed guilty of Theft, and being guilty thereof shall 

 be liable to be sentenced to Imprisonment not exceeding 

 the Term of One Year. 



