FINES AND PENALTIES. 107 



Bargemen and others catching fish with nets in canals, 

 &c. not being free waters, are subject to heavy fines or 

 imprisonment; or if they lay snares, trimmers, &c. at 

 night, are liable to transportation. 



W & Q) w, 



Criminal proceedings and penalties for injuries done to 

 private fisheries are punishable either by common law or 

 by different statutes. The breaking the mounds of 

 ponds maliciously, and stealing fish out of waters in 

 enclosed grounds, is declared felony, and the offender 

 taking fish out of water in unenclosed grounds are subject 

 to penalties, and the owners of fisheries and ponds are 

 authorized to seize the nets and fishing tackle of tress- 

 passers, and to keep or destroy them as they think fit. 

 Vide Chitty's Treatise on the Game Laws, a work well 

 deserving a place in the anglers library, as it treats very 

 fully on the nature and rights of fisheries ; as well as on 

 shooting, hunting, &c. 



ERRATA. 

 Page 47, last line, read give" instead of " dive." 



