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or yearly value of their several salmon fisheries, and the same 

 shall thereafter be paid either yearly or half yeaidy, as the 

 said commissioners and overseers may from time to time 

 direct and appoint, by the several tenants or occupiers of the 

 said several salmon fisheries, for and on behalf of the re- 

 spective owners or proprietors of the same, and for which 

 payments such tenants or occupiers shall be entitled to relief 

 from the respective owners or proprietors at settling or 

 paying their usual rents, and failing any of the said rates or 

 assessments being paid to the collector or collectors by any 

 one or more of the said tenants or occupiers when reqviired, 

 the same shall on demand be paid by the owner or proprietor 

 or owners or proprietors of the salmon fisheries so possessed 

 by such defaulter or defaulters ; and the rate or assessment 

 made at such meeting shall be binding upon and enforced 

 against every such owner or owners of a salmon fishery, and 

 the said tenants or occupiers ; and for recovery of the said 

 rates or assessments it shall and may be lawful to and for 

 any sheriff or Stewart depute or substitute, or any justice or 

 justices of the peace, within whose jui-isdiction the defaulter's 

 goods or effects may be found, to grant warrant for poinding 

 or distraining the same, and to appraise them on the spot 

 where found, and afterwards to sell the same by auction, for 

 payment of the said rate or assessment, together with the full 

 charges of such poinding, distress, af)praisement, and sale, 

 and the surplus (if any) shall be paid when demanded to the 

 persons whose effects shall have been so distrained and sold ; 

 which warrants shall be granted by such sheriff or Stewart 

 depute or substitute, or justice or justices, upon an application 

 made to him or them, and an attestation on oath signed by 

 such collector or collectors certifying that the person or per- 

 sons complained of was or were deficient in payment of the 

 rate or assessment above mentioned, and expressing therein 

 the arrears due by such person or pei'sons ; or the said com- 

 missioners or overseers, or any two of them, shall and may 

 prosecute any action or actions at law for the said rates or 

 assessments or arrears thereof. 



