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the end of drag-nets during the time of spawning, under 

 pain of twenty livres fine and of confiscation of tackle for 

 the first time, and being suspended from the fishing 

 during a year for the second. 



' 9. It is permitted, however, to set ckausses or mussel- 

 bags of eighteen lines square, and not otherwise, under the 

 same penalties; but spawning time being passed, they 

 may put hires of willows by day, the switches of which 

 shall be distant from each other at the least twelve lines. 



' 10. We cause it to be expressly forbidden to Mastei" 

 Fishers to make use of any implement or tackle prohibited 

 by the ancient ordinances relative to fishings, and besides 

 these those which are called giles, tramail, furet or ferret, 

 espervier, chaslon, and sabre, of which no mention is made 

 in these, or any others which may have been invented 

 to the depopulating of the rivers, as also to go on 

 harandage^ and to put ferry-boats on the rivers, on pain 

 of a hundred livres fine for the first time, and corporal 

 punishment for the second. 



' 11. They are forbidden further to houllier with houilles 

 or rahots, as well under chevrins, roots, willows, saughs, 

 burrows, and arches, as in other places, or to set lines with 

 dead and live baits, together with carrying chains and 

 clairoiis in their little boats, to go carrying a light, or to 

 fish in the noues with a net, and to boullier with this to 

 catch the fish and the spawn which may be borne along 

 by the overflowing of the rivers, under any pretext, at any 

 time, or in any manner whatsoever, under pain of a fine 

 of fifty livres against those guilty of contravention, and of 

 being banished for three years from the rivers, and of 

 three hundred livres fine against the Forest-Masters, or 

 their Lieutenants, who may have given them permission. 



' 12. Fishers shall throw back into the rivers trout, carp, 

 barbels, brearaes, and millers which they may have caught 

 having less than six inches between the eyes and the tail ; 

 and tenches, perches, and mullets which may have less 

 than five, under pain of a hundred livres of fine, and con- 

 fiscation against the fishers or merchants who may have 

 sold or bought them. 



