FISHERY IN FRANCE. 333 



XIV. That this act shall not extend to the Tweed and 

 its tributaries, nor to those rivers lying in the counties of 

 Dumfries and Wigton, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 



No. 2. LEGAL ENACTMENTS CONCERNING FISHERY 

 IN FRANCE. 



THE following extracts from the French piscatory code, 

 may be useful to the angler in France. 



It is necessary to premise, that it is almost impossible 

 to give a precise digest of these laws, because the execu- 

 tive has the power of issuing certain ordonnances which 

 govern different clauses of the code a prerogative which 

 it is not slow to exercise. The articles, however, which 

 we have extracted, still remain in full operation. 



LAWS OF THE 15TH APRIL, 1829. 

 CHAP. I. 



ON THE RIGHT OF FISHING. 



ART. 1. The right of fishing shall be exercised for 

 the benefit of the state. 



1st. In all the large waters, rivers, canals, and cross- 

 drains navigable, or capable of being navigated with 

 boats, or rafts, the maintenance of which is at the 

 expence of the state, or its assigns. 



