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APPENDIX. 



Having nets 

 in possession 

 deemed evi- 

 dence of 

 intent to 

 trespass. 



Limits of the 

 mouth of the 

 Tweed. 



this act, trespass in or upon any ground adjacent or near to 

 the said river Tweed, or any river, rivulet, brook or stream, 

 mill pool, mill lead, mill dam, sluice, pond, or other pool or 

 cut which runs into or otherwise communicates with the said 

 river Tweed, or in or upon the said rivers and waters, or 

 within the mouth or entrance of the said river Tweed, with 

 intent to take or kill salmon, grilse, sea trout, bull trout, 

 whitling, or other fish of the salmon kind, or the smolts, 

 spawn, or fry of such salmon or other fish, every such person 

 shall forfeit and pay for every such oiFence not less than 

 10s. and not exceeding 5/. 



8. And be it further enacted, that if any such trespasser 

 or trespassers shall have in his, her, or their possession, or in 

 the possession of any of them, (if more than one are together,) 

 any net or implement whatever, whereby or wherewith 

 salmon grilses, sea trouts, bull trouts, whitlings, or other 

 fish of the salmon kind, are usually taken or killed, the pos- 

 session thereof shall be deemed and taken to be suflftcient 

 evidence of the intent of such trespasser or trespassers to 

 commit such offence as aforesaid ; and in case such tres- 

 passer or trespassers shall not have in his, her, or their pos- 

 session any such net or implement as aforesaid, it shall in 

 such case be lawful to and for the justice or justices, sheriff 

 or Stewart depute or substitute, before whom the complaint 

 shall be heard, to infer, adjudge, and determine the intent of 

 the trespasser or trespassers to commit such offence as afore- 

 said, according to the evidence which may be adduced on the 

 hearing of any complaint that may be made against such 

 trespasser or trespassers, and to convict or discharge the 

 offender or offenders accordingly. 



9. And be it further enacted, that for the purposes of this 

 act the limits of the mouth or entrance of the said river 

 Tweed shall be deemed to extend and shall extend from a 

 newly erected pier, lately and formerly called Queen Eliza- 

 beth's pier, along the sea coast on the south side of the said 

 pier, five miles, and along the sea coast on the north side of 

 the said pier, four miles, and shall also extend five miles in 



