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of Robert I., 1318, chap. 12. The Committee gather 

 that the effect of these statutes, as regards the use of 

 fixed engines, is shortly as follows : 



1st, Cruives are legal from the source of a river down 

 to the point where the ebb and flow of the tide begins, 

 provided the person using such an engine has an express 

 grant from the Crown of the privilege of fishing in that 

 manner, has exercised that privilege, and observes the 

 regulations of the statutes as to cruives, the principal of 

 which are that they shall be kept open from Saturday 

 till Monday, and that the hecks or bars of the cruive 

 boxes shall not be less than three inches apart. 



2d, Cruives, yairs, and all other fixed engines, are 

 illegal in a river from the point where the flow and ebb 

 of the tide begins, down to the sea. 



3d, Fixed nets are not illegal on the sea-coast, and a 

 person having a grant of salmon fishings on the sea- 

 coast cannot be interdicted under the statutes by another 

 proprietor of salmon fishings, or be prevented by the 

 Crown from using such nets. 



The Tweed and Solway are exempted from these Acts. 



The question as to the extreme limit of a river towards 

 the sea, within which the prohibitions against fixed 

 engines apply, is one which must be determined by a 

 jury in each case as it arises, and a variety of circum- 

 stances would have to be taken into consideration, vary- 

 ing with the locality, so that the result in one case would 

 be but little guide towards a sound conclusion in another. 



With respect to the annual close -time, or period 

 within which it is allowed to take salmon. By an Act of 

 the Scottish Parliament, passed in 1424, it was forbidden 

 that any salmon be slain from the Feast of the Assump- 

 tion of our Lady until the Feast of St Andrew in winter. 

 The dates of these feast days being corrected according 



