SOS DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING. 



give false Evidence shall be liable to the Penalties of wilful and 

 corrupt Perjury. 



C. Nothing in this Act contained shall diminish, prejudice, 

 take away, alter, suspend, or affect any Right, Power, Authority, 

 Privilege, or Jurisdiction of the Lord High Admiral of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of the Com- 

 missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral. 



THE 18 5 9 ACT. 



Whereas an Act was passed in the Twentieth and Twenty-first 

 Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to 

 consolidate and amend the Acts for the more effectual Preser- 

 vation and Increase of Salmon and the Regulation of the 

 Fisheries in the River Tweed : And whereas it is expedient and 

 would be for the Advantage of the Salmon Fisheries in the 

 said River that the Annual Close Times defined by the said Act 

 should be altered, and that the Limits of the Mouth or Entrance 

 of the said River should be extended, and that further Provision 

 should be made for the Regulation of the Fisheries in the said 

 River and within the said extended Limits; but these Objects 

 cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament : May 

 it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and 

 be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 

 with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and 

 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 

 and by the Authority of the same, as follows : 



I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as " The Tweed 

 Fisheries Amendment Act, 1859." 



II. The Expression "the River" in the recited Act and this 

 Act shall mean and include the River Tweed, and every River, 

 Brook, or Stream which flows or runs into the said River, and 

 also the Mouth or Entrance of the said River, as described and 

 defined in this Act ; and the several other Words and Expres- 

 sions interpreted in the Second Section of the recited Act shall, 

 when used in this Act, have the same Meanings as are by the 

 recited Act assigned to them respectively. 



III. From and after the Fifth Day of October One thousand 

 eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Forty-first, Forty-second, 



