TWEED FISHERIES ACT. 273 



where the proprietors or occupiers shall be or reside, upon the 

 application or information of any one or more of the commis- 

 sioners or persons hereinafter named, and on due proof being 

 adduced before any justice or justices, sheriff or stewart de- 

 pute or substitute, of the service of the requisition, and that 

 six days have elapsed since the service thereof, to order and 

 direct such alteration to be made under the inspection and 

 direction of a proper person to be named by him or them, 

 and at the expence of the proprietor or occupier of the same, 

 in such manner as may sufficiently effect the object intended 

 with the least possible injury to such proprietor or occupier 

 as aforesaid, such expence to be levied and recovered in the 

 same manner as is hereinafter directed with respect to the 

 levying and recovering of penalties and forfeitures. 



26. And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful To prevent 



jy . i n nets being 



tor any person or persons to place or set any net or nets of placed within 

 any description whatever nearer than fifty yards above or any cauV. ° 

 below any dam, dike, wear, or cauld, in the said river Tweed, 

 or in the other rivers and streams running into or otherwise 

 communicating with the same ; or to affix any net, commonly 

 called a cairn net, to any islet or cairn not connected with or 

 adjoining to the banks of any of the said rivers or streams, 

 nor to build any cairn in any part of any such river or stream 

 which cairn shall not adjoin the bank thereof; and any 

 person found guilty of any such offence shall forfeit a sum 

 not less than 17. and not exceeding 101. for the first offence, 

 and not less than 21. and not exceeding 201. for every sub- 

 sequent offence, besides forfeiture of any such net or nets so 

 placed or set. 



27. And be it further enacted, that if any person or persons No pout nets, 

 shall, during the period of the said annual close-time, fish with used in close- 

 any pout net, or net of any other kind or description what- 

 ever, in the river Tweed, or in any river, rivulet, brook or 

 stream, mill pool, mill lead, mill dam, sluice, pond, or other 

 pool or cut which communicates with the said river Tweed, 

 or in the mouth or entrance of the said river Tweed, such 

 person or persons so offending shall, for every such offence, 



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