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use of the poor of the town or parish where such offence shall be 

 committed. 



V. And be it further enacted, That the said overseers of the fish- 

 eries shall be entitled to demand and receive one shilling and no 

 more for each set of nets to be set in the district to which they shall 

 be respectively appointed from the proprietors of such nets, as a 

 compensation for their trouble. 



VI. And be it further enacted, That if any such overseer of the 

 fisheries shall at any time wilfully and knowingly delay, neglect, or 

 refuse to perform the duty in and by this Act enjoined, such offender 

 shall forfeit and pay for every offence, the sum of five pounds, to 

 be sued for, recovered and applied in the same manner as the penalty 

 of ten pounds herein before mentioned, can or may be sued for, re- 

 covered or applied. 



VII. And be it further enacted, That if any overseer shall so 

 neglect to perform the duty in and by this Act enjoined, it shall and 

 may be lawful for any person or persons to apply to the Sheriff, his 



Deputy, or any Constable who are hereby authorized and re- 

 600 quired to take up and remove any such incumbrance forth- 

 with; and if no person or persons appear to claim the same 

 within ten days, the said net or nets so taken up and removed as 

 aforesaid, shall be considered the one moiety as the property of the 

 person or persons so complaining, and the other moiety as the prop- 

 erty of the Sheriff, his deputy, or any Constable who may take up and 

 remove the same. 



VIII. And be it further enacted, That no salmon shall be taken 

 or killed in any manner whatever, in the River Miramichi, or in the 

 River Restigouche, or in any of the branches of the said rivers, from 

 the thirtieth day of August, to the first day of April in every year; 

 nor shall any person purchase any fish so killed or taken, under the 

 penalty of five shillings for each fish so killed, taken or purchased, 

 to be recovered before any of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, 

 for the County of Northumberland, for the uses aforesaid. 



IX. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Peace in 

 the said County of Northumberland, in their General Sessions, shall 

 and may make such rules and regulations for the Fisheries in all 

 other Rivers, Coves and Creeks within the said County, not herein 

 and hereby regulated, as they shall think fit Provided the same 

 regulations so to be made, be not contrary to nor inconsistent with the 

 provisions herein before contained; and the Overseers of the Fish- 

 eries to be appointed in pursuance of this Act, are hereby required 

 to see that such rules and regulations so to be made are observed and 

 enforced in the same manner as any of the rules and regulations in 

 this Act are required to be observed and enforced under such pen- 

 alties, not exceeding Ten Pounds, as they the said Justices in their 

 discretion shall think fit. 



X. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue and be 

 in force seven years, and no longer. 



