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were in different hands different laws were in force, 

 and little regard was shown to those existing ex adverse. 

 Consequently we find certain exemptions in favour of 

 these rivers, or some of them, in many instances in old 

 Scottish Acts of Parliament. By the Act of 1424, 

 a special exemption for Tweed and Solway from the 

 penalties of killing fish in close time, ' quhilkis sail be 

 reddie to Scottismen at all times of the zeir als lang 

 as Berwick and Roxburgh are in English mennis 

 hands.' Again in 1563 the Solway was exempted 

 from the prohibition against ' cruives and yairs.' 

 Again in 1600 killing salmon in forbidden times was 

 declared to be theft, 'except in Annand and Tweed, 

 because the said rivers devyded at many parts the 

 bounds of Scotland and England adjacent to them, 

 whereby the forbearance upon the Scots' part of the 

 slauchter of salmon in forbidden time or of kipper, 

 smolts, and black fish at all times, would not have 

 made salmond any mair to abound in these waters if 

 the like order had not been observed on the English 

 side.' 



Special legislation upon the Tweed commenced in 

 1771, and was followed by various Acts down to 1857 

 and 1859, bringing the law upon that river to its 

 present condition, the management of the river being- 

 put in the hands of local Commissioners. Solway 



