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VIII. 



RESOLUTIONS adopted at a Meeting of the Proprietors and 

 Lessees of Salmon Fisheries of Ireland, Londonderry, 13th 

 June, 1848, as a basis for a Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant. 

 [Appendix, 1849, p. 150.] 



1. ' An Assessment Bill, according to the Scotch principle, 9 Geo. IV. 

 cap. 39, sec. 1, and no other, to be under the management of the pro- 

 prietors and farmers of the fisheries; and that no person or party shall 

 have power to interfere with them in such assessment. 



2. ' That draught nets used for taking Salmon at sea, being fished 

 by persons who have no right to the shore, should be deemed illegal, 

 unless possessed by proprietors of the shore adjoining, or persons 

 authorized by them. 



3. ' That all drift or mesh nets used for taking Salmon in the sea, 

 estuaries, lakes, or rivers, shall be declared illegal, inasmuch as such 

 nets are injurious to fisheries at large, by turning off much more fish 

 than they take, and are only used by poachers in rivers and lakes. 



4. ' That Magistrates shall have summary power in the open as 

 well as in the close season to punish trespassers. 



5. ' That every description of cross-line fishing in lakes frequented 

 by Salmon shall be prohibited, as it is in rivers. 



6. ' That the privileges and extent of all river and estuary fish- 

 eries for Salmon be ascertained and defined, pursuant to, and in confor- 

 mity with, established and existing rights. 



7. ' That different open and close seasons shall be fixed for different 

 .rivers; and that the bag-nets on the coast shall be bound to the same 

 open and close season as the river to which they pay the protection 

 cess. 



8. ' That the same close season shall be fixed for the taking of 

 Trout as for Salmon, as many Salmon are destroyed in the close season 

 on the pretence of fishing for Trout. 



9. * That angling shall be stopped in each river on the same day 

 as every other description of fishing, since, if a fish is unfit to be taken 

 by one mode of capture, it should not be taken by another. 



10. ' That there be a minimum penalty in every case of not less 

 than 2, or two months' imprisonment, without right of appeal, and 

 that warrants issued by Magistrates shall be levy and body warrants, 

 embodied in one, so as, failing the goods, the police may take the 

 offender, the same as iu revenue cases. 



11. ' That no person shall fish, by any means whatever, in any 

 river or tributary thereof, or estuary, where the tide ebbs and flows, 

 nor within one mile of low-water mark from the mouth thereof, at any 

 season, without the leave of the proprietor. 



12. ' Forfeiture of all instruments or engines used in taking 

 Salmon or Trout by poachers within the limits of fisheries; and that 

 all nets, spears, gaffs, or other instrument or engine found in the pos- 

 session of unauthorized persons, in or on the bank or banks of any 

 river or lake, be taken as primd facie evidence of intention of fishing, 

 and punishable accordingly. 



