288 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING. 



XXXVI. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners assembled 

 at any General, Special, or Adjourned Meeting to nominate and 

 appoint such Number of Water Bailiffs for the Protection of 

 the Fisheries and Detection of Offenders as to them shall ap- 

 pear expedient, or to authorise their District Meetings or any 

 Two or more Commissioners to nominate and appoint such 

 Water Bailiffs for such Periods and at such Salaries and on 

 such Terms and Conditions as shall appear to be expedient; 

 and it shall be in the Power of any General, Special, or District 

 Meeting of Commissioners to remove such Water Bailiffs or 

 any of them, and appoint others in their Boom, and to make 

 such Alterations in regard to their Salaries as to them shall 

 appear proper ; and it shall be lawful for any Two Commis- 

 sioners to supply and fill up any Vacancy or Vacancies that 

 may occur by the Death, Resignation, or Dismissal of any One 

 or more Water Bailiffs till the next General, Special, or Ad- 

 journed Meeting be held; and before any Superintendent or 

 Water Bailiff shall be entitled to act under the Authority of 

 this Act he shall take the Oath following before any Sheriff or 

 Justice of Peace ; (videlicet,) 



"I A.B. do solemnly swear, That I will duly and faithfully 



execute the Office of Superintendent [or Water Bailiff] in 



Terms of ' The Tweed Fisheries Act, 1857.' So help me 



God." 



And if any Person shall act as a Superintendent or Water 



Bailiff under the Authority of this Act without previously taking 



such Oath, he shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty 



not exceeding Ten Pounds. 



XXXVII. The Superintendent and Water Bailiffs appointed 

 as aforesaid shall, after being sworn into Office, have and be 

 entitled to exercise the Powers and Authorities of Constables 

 in regard to all Matters connected with this Act in the same 

 Manner as if Offences against this Act were Breaches of the 

 Peace, and for the Purpose of preventing Offences, or of de- 

 tecting and apprehending Offenders, to enter upon any Grounds 

 adjoining the Paver, and at all Times with their Boats or other- 

 wise to enter upon any Fishery in the River for the Purpose of 

 preventing or detecting unlawful Fishings or Obstructions in 

 the River, and to moor, anchor, or otherwise fix their Boats at 

 such Places as they shall find convenient; provided that by 

 such mooring, anchoring, or fixing their Boats they do not ob- 

 struct or impede any legal Mode of Fishing. 



XXXVIII. It shall be lawful for every Superintendent or 

 Water Bailiff or other Person whatsoever, without any War- 

 rant or Authority other than this Act, brevi manu to seize 

 and detain any Person who shall be found committing any 

 Offence against the Provisions of this Act, and to convey such 



