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APPENDIX. 



Power to 

 commission- 

 ers to name 

 representa- 

 tives. 



Penalty on 

 commission- 

 ers acting, if 

 not qualified. 



Commis- 

 sioners and 

 overseers 

 shall not act 

 while holding 

 places of 

 profit. 



time to time, one person to be a commissioner and overseer 

 as aforesaid, to represent each of them ; which person so 

 nominated and appointed shall have the like powers to vote 

 and act as the commissioners and overseers hereinbefore ap- 

 pointed, such nomination and appointment to be, from time 

 to time, revocable at the option of the party by or on whose 

 account the said commissioners and overseers shall be respec- 

 tively appointed. 



32. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be 

 lawful to and for each and every person hereby appointed a 

 commissioner and overseer for putting this act in execution 

 to nominate and appoint by any instrument in writing under 

 his hand, from time to time, one other commissioner to be 

 proxy for and to represent and act in all or any meetings of 

 the said commissioners and overseers, as the representative 

 or proxy of the person by whom he is so nominated and ap- 

 pointed ; which commissioner so nominated and appointed 

 shall be entitled, in the absence of each such commissioner 

 for whom he may be so appointed proxy, to vote at all such 

 meetings for each commissioner by whom he is so appointed 

 as well as for himself : provided always, that in no case shall 

 the person nominated, and the commissioner by whom he is 

 so appointed, be entitled to vote at the same meeting for and 

 in respect of the same fishing. 



33. And be it enacted, that if any person not qualified as 

 aforesaid shall nevertheless presume to act as a commis- 

 sioner and overseer under the authority of this act, or to 

 nominate and appoint any person to act for him, such person 

 or persons so acting or nominating shall forfeit and pay the 

 sum of 20/. for every such offence, to any person who shall 

 sue for the same in his majesty's courts of record at West- 

 minster, or any court competent in Scotland, and the proof 

 of qualification shall lie upon the defendant or defender. 



34. And be it enacted, that if any person entitled to be a 

 commissioner and overseer for putting this act in execution 

 shall accept of any place of profit arising out of the rate of 

 assessment hereinafter granted, such person shall from thence- 



