TWEED FISHERIES ACT. 275 



offence against this act, and to convey such offender, or cause 

 him to be conveyed by some constable or other peace oflicer, 

 in case the offence is committed in England, before any justice 

 of the peace for the county or borough in or near the place 

 in which the offence shall be committed, who shall forthwith 

 proceed against such offender according to law, and according 

 to the provisions in this act contained ; and in case the offence 

 is committed in Scotland, the offender or offenders shall be 

 conveyed by the person or persons apprehending him or them, 

 before the sheriff or Stewart depute or substitute, or some 

 justice or justices of the peace of the county or shire in or 

 near the place in which the offence shall be committed, or 

 where the offender or offenders shall reside or shall be found, 

 who shall forthwith examine and discharge,- or commit such 

 person or persons until caution de judicio sisti be found, as 

 the case may require. 



31. And for executing the purposes of this act, be it fur- commission- 



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ther enacted, that all and every the proprietors of salmon ^^^"^^ «p- 



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fishings in the said river Tweed, or in any river, rivulet, 

 brook or stream, mill pool, mill lead, mill dam, sluice, pond, 

 or other pool or cut, running into or otherwise commixni- 

 cating with the same, or in the mouth or entrance of the said 

 river, of the annual value of 30^. or which extend half a 

 mile in length, where such fishings are only on one side of 

 the water, or a quarter of a mile where such fishings com- 

 prehend both sides of the water, one guardian of each minor, 

 one trustee of every such estate, one member of each cor- 

 poration or associated body holding, enjoying, or possessing 

 such salmon fishings of the annual value or extent aforesaid, 

 shall be and they are hereby appointed commissioners and 

 overseers for the purposes before and hereinafter mentioned ; 

 and it shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners 

 of Greenwich hospital, the dean and chapter of the cathedral 

 church of Durham, the mayor and corporation of the town 

 of Berwick, and the trustees under the will of Nathaniel late 

 Lord Crewe, each to nominate and appoint, by an instrument 

 in writing under their seal or seals, hand or hands, from 



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