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' 13. We will that there be in each Maitrise a die, on 

 which shall be engraven an escutcheon of our arms, and 

 on the reverse the name of the Maitrise, of which use shall 

 be made to seal on lead the tackle or implements of the 

 fishers, who cannot use any upon which the seal has not 

 been impressed, under pain of confiscation, and of twenty 

 livres tine; and the implements and tackle which have 

 been marked shall be registered, along with the day, and 

 the name of the fisher who has had them marked ; but 

 this without our officers having power to take any fee. 



' 14. We forbid to all persons to throw into the rivers 

 any lime, nux vomica, cocullus iudicus, momie, and other 

 drugs or attractions for the fish, under pain of corporal 

 punishment. 



' 15. We forbid to all mariners, boatswains, mates, steers- 

 men, and other river watermen, steering their ships, boats, 

 barges, or punts, to have any implements of fishing, be it 

 those permitted or forbidden by the ancient ordinances or 

 the present, under pain of a hundred livres fine, and con- 

 fiscation of the implements. 



' 16. We order that all the fishing stages which shall be 

 used on streams and navigable rivers shall be brought to 

 land, and the fishers shall give notice of them to the Ser- 

 geants and Guards of Fisheries, who shall be bound to 

 prepare a minute of the same, and to give them in keep- 

 ing to a responsible person, who shall have the charge of 

 them of which minute our Attorney shall make a com- 

 munication to the Registry immediately on its being 

 brought to him by the Sergeant or Guard of the Fishery, 

 and which he shall read at the first Audience ; upon 

 which being done, the Master, or his Lieutenant, shall 

 order that if within a month the fishing stage be not 

 demanded and reclaimed, it shall be sold to our profit to 

 the highest and last bidder, and the money proceeds put 

 into the hands of our Receivers, saving that this shall be 

 delivered to him, who shall reclaim them within a month 

 after the sale if it have been so ordered in the cognisance 

 taken of the case. 



