82 ON THE CHANNEL-FISHERIES. 



is not, that three magistrates shall have the power 

 to order or cause to be ordered or made, a waste 

 fender or outlet, for the salmon spawn or shed in 

 the season, when they descend into such mill-leats, 

 to pass uninterrupted and uninjured into the beds 

 of the rivers beneath, so that they may have free 

 access to the sea. And that it shall be lawful for 

 any conservator to attend such mill-leats in the 

 season when the salmon spawn or shed descend the 

 rivers, and to draw such waste fenders three hours 

 a day, that is, one hour at a time, to let and suffer 

 such spawn to pass and escape from such mill-leats. 

 And be it further enacted, that all owners and 

 occupiers of corn, fulling, paper, and other mills, 

 (and all other places where there be fenders) shall 

 constantly keep open one shutter, or small hole * 

 of a foot square, in the waste hatch, or water- 

 course, in the direct stream, for salmon to pass 

 and repass at all seasons of the year, and suffer 

 such fish to pass and repass without being taken 

 or injured, under the penalty of 20/. And such 

 miller or other persons shall, during the salmon 

 spawning season aforesaid, every night, at least 

 six hours, draw such waste fender, so that all such 

 spawn or shed, as well as the back salmon or spent 

 fish, may pass into the open river beneath, and 



* By the statute of Ann, this waste fender is expressly or- 

 dered to be of a foot square ; but then, as is before observed, 

 it only applies to Southampton and Wilts perhaps every one 

 will think it should be made general. 





