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offence, or procure another to assist him. therein, shall be found 

 guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. 



For destroying or killing fish in enclosed ground, being private 

 property, a penalty of five pounds, or imprisonment in the House 

 of Correction for not exceeding six months. 



For breaking into an enclosed or private ground, and stealing or 

 destroying the fish, transportation for seven years, and receivers 

 the like punishment. 



No persons may have in possession, or keep, any net, angle 

 piche, or other engine for taking fish, but the makers and sellers 

 thereof, and the owner or renter of a river fishery, except fishermen 

 and their apprentices, legally authorised in navigable rivers ; and 

 the owner or occupier of the said river may seize, and keep, and 

 convert to his own. use, every net, &c., which he shall discover laid 

 or used, or in the possession of any person thus fishing without his 

 consent. 



Damaging or intruding, by using nettrices, fish-hooks, or other 

 engines to catch fish, without consent of the owner or occupier, 

 must pay any amount the magistrate or justice orders, provided it 

 exceeds not treble the damages, and be fined, not exceeding ten 

 shillings, for the use of the poor of the parish, or imprisonment in 

 the House of Correction, not exceeding one calendar month, 

 unless he enters into a bond, with one surety, in a sum not ex- 

 ceeding 10/. not to oifend again, and the justice may cut or destroy 

 the nets, &c. 



If any person unlawfully or maliciously cut, break down, or 

 destroy any head or dam of a fish-pond, or unlawfully fish therein, 

 he shall, at the prosecution of the king, or the owner, be im- 

 prisoned three months, or pay treble damages, and after such 

 imprisonment, shall find t sureties for seven years for his good 

 behaviour, or remain in prison till he doth. 



To prevent the fish in the Thames from being improperly de- 

 stroyed, the 30th of George the > Second enacts, that no person shall 

 fish, or endeavour to take fish, in the said river, between London- 

 bridge and Richmond-bridge, with other than lawful nets. 



For salmon, not less than six inches in the mesh ; 



For pike, jack, perch, roach, chub, and barbel, with a flew or 

 stream net, of not less than three inches in the mesh throughout, 

 with a facing of seven inches, and not more than sixteen fathom 

 long ; 



For shads, not less than two inches and a half in the mesh ; 



For flounders, not less than two inches and a half in the mesh, 

 and not more than sixteen fathom lon<* ; 



For dace, with a single blay-net, of not less than two inches in 

 the mesh, and not more than thirteen fathom long, to be worked 

 by floating only, with a boat and a buoy ; 



' For smelts, with a net of not less than one inch and a quarter in 

 the mesh, and not of greater length than sixteen fathom, to be 

 worked by floating only, with a boat and a buoy; 



