258 APPENDIX. 



amend and render more effectual three acts made in the 

 eleventh, fifteenth, and thirty-seventh years of his present 

 majesty, for the regulation and improvement of the fisheries 

 in the river Tweed : " and whereas it has been found by 

 experience that the said recited acts have become inadequate 

 to the purposes intended, and that for several years past the 

 salmon have rapidly decreased in the said river Tweed, and 

 there is every reason to apprehend that a progressive de- 

 crease will continue to take place, unless effectual measures 

 be resorted to for the preservation of the breed of salmon, 

 and fish of the salmon kind, in the said river ; and it is 

 therefore expedient that the periods of the annual and weekly 

 close-time should be enlarged, and that the said recited acts 

 should be repealed, and that instead thereof further and other 

 regulations should be made in lieu thereof; but as these 

 purposes cannot be effected without the aid and authority of 

 Recited acts parliament : may it therefore please your Majesty, that it 



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may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most ex- 

 cellent 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, that 

 from and after the passing of this act, the said several recited 

 acts passed in the eleventh, fifteenth, thirty-seventh, and 

 forty-seventh years of the reign of his said late Majesty shall 

 Periods in be, and the same are hereby repealed ; and that from and 



which salmon . /» 1 • -in 



shall not be after the passing of this act it shall not be lawful for anv 



taken &c. 



person or persons to fish for or take in any way, except by 

 means of angling or rod fishing, any salmon, grilse, sea trout, 

 bull trout, whitling, or other fish of the salmon kind, in the 

 said river Tweed, or in any river, rivulet, brook, or 

 stream, or in any mill pool, mill lead, mill dam, sluice, 

 pond, or other pool or cut which runs into or otherwise 

 communicates with the said river Tweed, or within the 

 mouth or entrance of the said river Tweed, at any time or 

 times between the fifteenth day of October in any year and 

 the fifteenth day of February in the year following ; nor by 

 means of angling or rod fishing, at any time or times between 



