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he shall, on the like conviction, forfeit and pay a sum 

 not exceeding two pounds, as to the justice shall 

 seem fit." 



Section 35 enacts, " That if any person shall at 

 any time be found fishing against the provisions of 

 this Act, it shall be lawful for the owner of the 

 ground, water, or fishery, where such offender shall 

 be found, his servants, or any person authorized by 

 him to demand from such offender, any rods, lines, 

 hooks, nets, or other implements for taking or destroy, 

 ing fish, which shall then be in his possession : and 

 in case such offender shall not immediately deliver 

 up the same, to seize and take the same from him for 

 the use of such owner : Provided always, that any 

 person angling in the day-time against the provisions 

 of this Act, from whom any implements used by an 

 glers shall be taken, or by whom the same shall be 

 delivered up as aforesaid, shall, by the taking or de 

 livering thereof, be exempted from the payment of 

 any damages or penalty for such angling." 



How far this act may operate against the former 

 laws and judicial decisions still in force, must be left 

 to the sages of the law to determine. I merely give 

 these sections of the Act from the Act itself, with all 

 its tautology, &c., &c. 



No respectable angler will attempt to angle in a 

 private water without the permission of the owner, 



