TWEED FISHERIES ACT. 267 



stroying of salmon or fish of the sahnou kind, the owners of "f^^'^.'^^^gg^ 

 which shall not be known to the bailiff discovering the same, 

 shall be left or placed in the said river Tweed, or in any river, 

 rivulet, brook, stream, pond, pool or other water, mill lead, 

 miU dam, sluice or cut, which runs into or otherwise com- 

 municates with the said river Tweed, or within the mouth or 

 entrance of the said river, at any time during the annual or 

 weekly close-times, with the intent or for the purpose of fishing 

 for or taking any salmon or fish of the salmon kind during 

 the said close-times (which intention and piu-pose, with 

 respect to nets, shall be legally and sufiiciently implied from 

 their being left or placed, during the said close-times, in the 

 state in which such nets are ordinarily used in fishing for or 

 taking salmon or fish of the salmon kind,) it shall and may 

 be lawful for any water bailiff or water bailiffs, or other 

 person or persons, employed or acting under the authority of 

 this act, to seize and to burn, cut to pieces, or otherwise 

 destroy the same. 



17. And be it fm'ther enacted, that in case any person or Penalty on 



, 1, . 1 f •! 1 • • 1 resisting or 



persons shall resist, or make forcible opposition to, or assault assaulting 

 any high or petty constable, or other peace officer, sheriflf's 

 officer, water bailiff, or any person employed in the due exe- 

 cution of this act, every such person shall for every such 

 offence forfeit and pay any sum not less than 51. 



18. And whereas many idle and disorderly persons, who Penalty on 

 are not owners or occupiers of any fishery in the said river persons fish- 

 Ttveed, or within the limits of the mouth or entrance thereof, the mouth of 

 or otherwise entitled to fish for salmon, grilses, salmon trouts, 

 or whitlings, or other fish of the salmon kind in the said river, 

 have and keep in their possession nets, engines, and other 

 tackle adapted for the taking and killing such fish, and have 

 made a practice of fishing therewith, not only upon the fish- 

 eries in the said river Tweed, and the rivers therewith con- 

 nected, but also within the mouth or entrance of the said 

 river, and by such means not only take and destroy the said 

 fish, but drive many of them from the coast, to the manifest 

 loss and injury of the owners and occupiers of such fisheries ; 



the river, &c. 



