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(2) aiul no fixed eng'ine of any ileseriptinn sliuU be placed in tidid 

 waters between sunset on Saturday and sunrise on Monday : provitled 

 tliat it sliall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by notijieation made 

 in the Fort St. George Gazette, to exempt any tidal water from the 

 operation of this clause; 



(3) and no fixed engine other than fixed nets of legal meshes shall, 

 for the purpose of catching fish, bo set on or near the banks of, or 

 between high and low water marks of, any tidal waters ; 



(1) and any engine placed or used in contravention of this section 

 may be taken possession of or destroyed; and any engine so placed or used, 

 and any lish taken by such engine, shall be forfeited, and in addition 

 thereto, tlie owner of any engine placed or used in contravention of this 

 section shall, for each day of so placing or using the same, incur a 

 penalty not exceeding one hundred rupees. 



1-1. When fish or the young of fish are led aside out of a main 

 stream by means of any artificial channel used for irrigation, or for the 

 purpose of supplying towns with water, or for supplying any uavigal^le 

 canal, the revenue authorities shall determine whether it is necessary to 

 place and maintain gratings before such diversions of water, or to make 

 and maintain a free passage therefrom to the main stream, in what man- 

 ner the same sliall be done, and by whom, and at whose cost, in whole 

 or part ; and after the expiration of a period of six months from the 

 comuiencement of this Act, any person or persons failing to put a grat- 

 ing or gratings, or to make a free passage in cases where they are 

 required to do so by this section, shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty 

 rupees for every day after the expiration of such period of six months, 

 daring which he fails to comply with the provisions of this section; and 

 any such jierson failing so to maintain the same shall incur a penalty not 

 exceeding teu rupees for every day during which such failure continues: 

 provided always tluvt no such grating sliall be so placed as to interfere 

 with the passage of boats on any navigable canal. 



15. Fenaltj/ on netling near dams. — No person shall catch or 

 attempt to catch, except by rod and line, any fish within one hundred 

 yards of any dam ; and if any person acts in contravention of this yirovi- 

 sion, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty rupees for each oflenee, 

 shall forfeit all ilsh caught in contravention of this section, and all nets 

 or other instruments used or placed for catching the same. 



16. Peualli/ un taking niulersized Jish. — No jierson shall wilfully 

 take, destroy, injure, buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in his posses- 

 sion any fish tleclared, by notification of the Governor in Council iu the 

 Fort St. Qeorge Gazette, to be under-sized fish. 



17. Power to make lye-laivs. — For the better application o£ 

 this Act, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make 

 from time to time, by notification in the Vort St. George Gazette, any 

 bye-law not repugnant to tiie tenor of this Act. 



1 8. Power to impose taxes. — I'Vom the date of the commencement 

 of this Act, it shall be lawful to collect the following dues from all persons 

 fishing iu waters which are the projierty of Government : — For every drag 

 or wall net (&c., &c., as in paragraj)h 139 of the rejiort) not more than 

 nine rupees per aunum (and so on as iu paragraph 139 of the report), the 

 rates only being trebled. 



