234 THE SALMON 



i. To make contracts. 



2. To issue licenses. 



3. To purchase by agreement and compulsorily 

 (under the Lands Clauses Acts), for the purpose only 

 of removal, fishing weirs, fishing mill-dams, and 

 fixed engines. 



4. To take legal proceedings against persons 

 offending against the Salmon Fishery Acts. 



5. To make bye-laws subject to the approval of 

 the Board of Trade. 



6. To alter the commencement and termination 

 of the close time, annual and weekly as to the whole 

 or part of a district (with limitations which will be 

 noticed). 



7. To determine the length and size of nets and 

 the manner in which they may be used (but no hang 

 or draft net may be limited by bye-law to less than 

 two hundred yards). 



8. To determine the size of the mesh of nets 

 (but the mesh is not to be decreased to less than 

 one and a half inches from knot to knot, nor ex- 

 tended to more than two and a half inches all round 

 when wet). 



9. To determine the form of licenses. 



to. To vary the rate of license duty in different 

 parts of the district. 



