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Salmon, Lampreys, or any other fish may in any 

 wise be taken or destroyed; and the waters of 

 Lon, Wyre, Mersey, Kibble, and all other waters 

 in Lancashire, shall be put in defence, as to 

 taking of Salmon, from Michaelmas to Candlemas, 

 and in no other time of the year." 



By an act made in the seventeenth year of 

 the same reign, 



ci The justices of the peace, and the mayor of 

 London, on the Thames and Medway, shall sur- 

 vey the offences in both the acts above mentioned, 

 and shall survey and search all the wears in such 

 rivers, that they shall not be very strait for the 

 destruction of such fry and brood, but of reason- 

 able wideness, after the old assize used or accus- 

 tomed ; and they shall appoint under-conservators, 

 who shall be sworn to make the like survey, 

 search and punishment: and they shall enquire 

 in sessions, as well by their office as at the infor- 

 mation of the under-conservators, of all defaults 

 aforesaid, and shall cause them which shall be 

 thereof indicted, to come before them, and if they 

 thereof be convicted, they shall have imprisonment, 



