TWEED FISHERIES ACT. 265 



any sheriff or Stewart depute or substitute, within whose 

 jurisdiction the same shall be so seized, and such justice or 

 justices, or sheriff or stewart depute or substitute, respectively 

 shall and may order all such boats, oars, nets, engines, and 

 other tackle, to be burnt, cut to pieces, or otherwise destroyed 

 or disposed of; and it shall and may also be lawful to and for 

 every such water bailiff or water bailiffs, or other person or 

 persons employed and acting under the authority of this act, 

 at any time during the annual close-time to enter into or 

 upon any fishery or fishing grounds, and without any war- 

 rant or warrants, to search all and every the fishing shields 

 and other premises belonging thereto, for any boats, oars, 

 nets, engines, and other tackle, that may be deposited or 

 concealed therein ; and in case any such shield is found to be 

 locked up, and upon request the occupier of such shield shall 

 refuse to open the door thereof, it shall be lawful for the 

 water bailiff or water bailiffs, or other person or persons 

 aforesaid to break open the door of such shield, and to search 

 for any such boats, oars, nets, engines, or other tackle as 

 aforesaid, and if found, to dispose of the same in like manner 

 as last herein-before directed, in regard to boats, oars, nets, 

 engines, and other tackle, when not removed as herein-before 

 directed. 



13. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for sheriffs and 

 any such justice or justices, or sheriff or stewart depute or ioVeredto" 

 substitute as aforesaid, upon application to him or them, made fains Z"' 

 in writing, under the hands of any two or more of the pro- boat°s!&c. 

 prietors or occupiers of fisheries, in the said river Tweed, and 

 he and they is and are hereby directed and required to autho- 

 rize and direct by warrant, under his or their hand and seal, 

 or hands and seals, in England, and under his or their hand 

 or hands in Scotland, any constable, peace officer, or water 

 bailiff or water bailiffs, to be appointed under the authority 

 of this act, with such assistants as may be necessary, to search 

 between the seventeenth day of October and the third day 

 of November, respectively, as herein-before mentioned, and 

 the thirteenth day of February in every year, all and every 



