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the same may be known and may be easily distinguished from 

 Ferry Boats or Boats used indiscriminately for both Net Fishing 

 and Rod Fishing, which Direction or Appointment shall be 

 notified to the Owner and Occupier of every Fishery using any 

 such Boat or to his or their known Agent, and which distin- 

 guishing Colour or Mark every Owner and Occupier of every 

 Boat generally and ordinarily used for fishing with Nets shall 

 be bound, after such Notification, to put upon such Boat pre- 

 vious to the Commencement of the next Fishing Season, and 

 also upon all such Boats as they shall afterwards use, and to 

 keep the same thereon until such Time as some new Direction 

 or Appointment in that Behalf shall have been made by the 

 Commissioners ; and every such Owner or Occupier who uses 

 any such Boat without such distinguishing Colour or Mark, or 

 with any other Colour or Mark than those specially appointed 

 for such Boat, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty 

 not exceeding Five Pounds, and ever)' Boat so used may be 

 seized and forfeited. 



LV. It shall not be lawful for any Person to set or place or 

 retain in the River any fixed Net or fixed Engine, or to take 

 or kill any Salmon by means of any such fixed Net or fixed 

 Engine ; and every Person who sets, places, or retains in the 

 Biver any such fixed Net or fixed Engine, or by means thereof 

 takes or kills any Salmon, shall for every such Offence be liable 

 to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds, and to a daily 

 Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for every Day during which 

 such fixed Net or fixed Engine is so set, placed, or retained, 

 and an additional Penalty of Ten Shillings for each Salmon 

 taken by any such Means, and every fixed Net or fixed Engine 

 so used and the Fish so taken shall be forfeited ; and it shall 

 be lawful for the Commissioners, or any Two of them, or any 

 Person appointed or authorised by the Commissioners, or any 

 Two of them, to remove and take away all and every such 

 fixed Net or fixed Engine, and to dispose of the same as they 

 shall think fit. 



LVI. All Mill Dams, Dykes, Wears, Caulds, and other per- 

 manent Obstructions to the Bun of Salmon in the Biver shall 

 be so constructed, and if necessary shall be so altered, as to 

 permit and allow of the free Bun of Salmon over the same in 

 the main Stream of the Biver in the ordinary and mean State 

 thereof; and if the Owners or Occupiers of such Mill Dams, 

 Dykes, "Wears, Caulds, and other Obstructions, or of any Mills 

 or Works for which they are or may be erected or used, shall 

 refuse or neglect so to construct or alter the same within 

 Twenty-one Days after being thereunto required in Writing by 

 any Two of the Commissioners or the Clerk, it shall be lawful 

 for the Sheriff in Scotland or any Justice in England within 



