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APPENDIX. 



Oath of water 

 bailiff. 



Powers of 

 water bailiffs. 



to nominate and appoint such conservators or water bailiffs, 

 for such periods and at such salaries, and on such terms and 

 conditions, as shall appear to be expedient ; and it shall be in 

 the power of any general or district meeting of commissioners 

 and overseers, or their said representatives, to remove such 

 conservators or water bailiffs, or any of them, and appoint 

 others in their room, and to make such alterations in regard 

 to their salaries as to them shall appear proper ; and further, 

 that it shall be lawful for any two commissioners and over- 

 seers to supply and fill up any vacancy or vacancies that may 

 occur by the death, resignation, or dismissal of any one or 

 more conservators or water bailiffs till the next stated general, 

 adjourned, or special meeting be held ; and before any con- 

 servator or water bailiffs shall be entitled to act under the 

 authority of this act he shall take the oath following, before 

 any competent magistrate ; videlicet, 



" I, A. B., do solemnly swear, that I will duly and faithfully 

 " execute the office of a water bailiff, in terms of an act passed 

 " in the year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 



" intituled [here take in the title of this acf\. So help me 

 " God." 



And if any person shall presume to act as a water bailiff under 

 the authority of this act, without previously taking the oath 

 hereinbefore appointed, he shall forfeit and pay for every 

 such offence any sum not less than 10/. and not exceeding 201. 

 44. And be it further enacted, that the water bailiffs ap- 

 pointed as aforesaid shall, after being sworn into office, be 

 empowered to exercise the powers and authorities of con- 

 stables in regard to all matters connected with this present 

 act, in the same manner as if offences against this act were 

 breaches of the peace, and, specially for the purpose of pre- 

 venting offences or detecting and apprehending offenders, to 

 enter upon any inclosed or uninclosed grounds adjoining the 

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

 any mill pool, mill lead, mill dam, sluice, pond, or cut running 

 into or otherwise communicating with the said river Tweed, 



