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used the best practicable means within a reasonable cost to render harmless 

 the liquid or solid matter so permitted to flow or to be put into waters. 



8. And no person shall be subject to the foregoing penalties if he 

 prove to the satisfaction of the Court before whom he is tried that the 

 poisoning complained of existed before the passing of this Act; that 

 the cost of rendering it harmless would exceed one hundred rupees, or 

 would exceed a reasonable tax on his means ; and that he has, prior to 

 the date of the complaint, applied to the Collector of the District for the 

 aid of Government. 



9. In the event of the Collector being- applied to for Government 

 aid, he shall cause the poisoning to be rendered harmless, and shall proceed 

 in accordance with the provisions of Act of (the Arbi- 

 tration Act) to apportion the share of the expense thereof to be borne by the 

 applicant and the sum to be paid him for any damage done to his property. 



10. If the Collector considers that the applicant has no claim 

 under section 8 on the assistance of Government, he shall give notice 

 to the applicant that, unless he himself renders the subject of the com- 

 plaint harmless within one month or other longer period fixed by the 

 Collector, a complaint will be lodged against him under section 5. 



11. Penalty on destroying Roe. No person shall do the following 

 things, or any of them, that is to say 



I. Buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in his possession, 



any spawned roe. 



II. Wilfully disturb any place in which fish have spawned. 

 And any person acting in contravention of this section shall, for 

 ich offence, incur a penalty not exceeding twenty rupees, and shall 

 >rfeit all roe found in his possession ; but this section shall not 

 >ply to any person who uses or has in his possession roe for artificial 

 propagation or other scientific purposes, or gives any reason satis- 

 factory to the Court by whom he is tried for having the same in his 

 possession. 



12. Penalty on using certain nets. No person shall take or attempt 

 to take any fish, except shrimps or prawns, with any net having a mesh 

 of less than the following dimensions, that is to say, in the inland 

 waters of less than half an inch in extension from knot to knot (the 

 measurement to be made on each side of the square, or two inches 

 measured round each mesh when wet ; or in the tidal waters of less 

 than three inches measured round each mesh when wet) ; and any 

 person acting in contravention of this section shall forfeit all nets 

 and tackle used by him in so doing, and shall, for each offence, incur 

 a penalty not exceeding rupees fifty ; and the placing two or more nets 

 behind or near to each other in such manner as to practically diminish 

 the mesh of the nets used, or the covering the nets used with canvas, 

 or Ihe using any other artifice so as to evade the provisions of this 

 section with respect to the mesh of nets, shall be deemed to be an 

 act in contravention of this section. 



13. Penalty on placing or fixing fixed engines. No fishing weir 

 or fixed engine of any description shall be placed or used for catching 

 fish in any inland water ; and for the purposes of this section any water 

 flowing to, through, or from irrigated fields shall be included in the term 

 inland water; 



