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Exceptions. 



Boats not re- 

 moved may 

 be seized by 

 bailifTs, &c. 

 without any 

 warrant. 



APPENDIX. 



spective fisheries, fishing shields, and fishing grounds, all boats, 

 oars, nets, engines, and other tackle used and employed by 

 them, or any or either of them, in the taking and killing 

 such fish as aforesaid, excepting boats with their oars, used 

 for angling or rod fishing ; on or before the seventeenth day of 

 October in every year, to some place or places, to be named by 

 the commissioners or overseers by this act appointed, where the 

 same can be securely lodged and kept, so as to prevent their 

 being used in fishing, and there to remain until the thirteenth 

 day of February in the following year ; and each boat with 

 its oars, so retained for the purpose of angling or rod fishing, 

 shall be so removed and carried away on or before the third 

 day of November in every year, and shall be lodged and kept 

 and remain as aforesaid until the said thirteenth day of Feb- 

 ruary in the following year ; and in case any such occupier or 

 occupiers shall neglect or refuse to remove all and every such 

 boats, nets, oars, and other tackle as aforesaid, and the same, 

 so removed, to keep secured from the said fisheries and 

 premises during the time aforesaid, every such person so 

 refusing or neglecting, on being convicted thereof before any 

 one or more justice or justices in England, or justice or jus- 

 tices, or sheriff" or Stewart depute or substitute, in Scotland, 

 shall, for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not less 

 than 51. and not exceeding 201. : provided always, that 

 nothing herein contained shall be construed or held to extend 

 to public ferry boats, nor to boats used by any propi'ietor or 

 occupier of land adjoining the said rivers, solely for the trans- 

 port of himself, or herself, or his or her family, but under 

 the regulations herein-after specified in regard to such boats. 

 12. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for 

 any water bailiff" or water bailiff's, or other person or persons 

 employed in the execution of this act, without any other autho- 

 rity than this act, to seize all such fishing boats, oars, nets, 

 engines, and other tackle, which shall not have been so re- 

 moved as aforesaid (but excepting as aforesaid), and to convey 

 and carry the same to some place of security, and give in- 

 formation thereof to any justice or justices of the peace, or 



