306 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING. 



XCIII. Any Information, Complaint, and Proceedings before* 

 tbe Sheriff or Justice or Justices before whom any Person shall 

 be complained of or proceeded against for any Offence under 

 the Provisions of this Act, and the Warrants, Sentence, or 

 Conviction thereon, may be in the Form of the Schedule (B.) 

 hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be, and may be 

 printed or written or partly printed and partly written, and 

 no written Eecord of Evidence shall be necessary unless either 

 Party before such Complaint shall be heard requires the Sheriff 

 or Justice or Justices to take Notes of the Evidence to be 

 adduced, wliich such Sheriff or Justice or Justices shall do or 

 cause to be done, and the Notes so taken shall be deemed and 

 held in any subsequent Proceedings as a sufficient Eecord of 

 the Evidence under such Complaint. 



XCIV. No Proceeding in pursuance of this Act shall be 

 quashed or vacated for Want of Form, nor shall the same be 

 removed by Certiorari or otherwise into any of the Superior 

 Courts in England, or be subject to Appeal or Eeview by any of 

 the Supreme Courts in Scotland, except as herein-after provided. 



XCV. It shall not be necessary in any Proceeding against 

 any Person under the Provisions of this Act to negative by 

 Evidence any Licence, Consent, Authority, or other Matter of 

 Exception or Defence, but the Person seeking to avail himself 

 of such Licence, Consent, Authority, or other Matter of Excep- 

 tion or Defence shall be bound to prove the same. 



XCVI. It shall be lawful for the Complainer or for any 

 Party charged to appeal against any Adjudication or Convic- 

 tion pronounced by any Sheriff or Justice or Justices in Scot- 

 land, with respect to any Complaint or Penalty or Forfeiture 

 under the Provisions of this Act, by which he thinks himself 

 aggrieved ; and in case such Adjudication or Conviction shall 

 be pronounced by any Sheriff, the Appeal therefrom shall be 

 made to the next Circuit Court of Justiciary in the Manner 

 and by and under the Eules, Limitations, Conditions, and 

 Eestrictions contained in the Act passed in the Twentieth 

 Year of the Eeign of His Majesty King George the Second for 

 taking away and abolishing Heritable Jurisdictions in Scot- 

 land; and in case such Abjudication or Conviction shall be 

 pronounced by any Justice or Justices, the Appeal therefrom 

 shall be made to the next General, Stated, or Adjourned 

 Meeting of the Justices of the County, Burgh, or Place for 

 which such Justice or Justices shall act, in Quarter Sessions 

 assembled, but no such Appeal to the Quarter Sessions shall 

 be entertained unless it be made within Four Months next after 

 the pronouncing of such Adjudication or Conviction, nor unless 

 Ten Days Notice in Writing of such Appeal, stating the Nature 



