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his or their assistance, and to make search for and 

 seize such nets on board such vessels or else- 

 where, either at sea or elsewhere, as well as such 

 net or nets, either in part or in whole as shall be 

 found therein, and to secure and dispose of the 

 same as such court of sessions may direct; and any 

 person or persons rescuing or attempting to res- 

 cue after the seizure thereof^ either by force or 

 fraud, such net or nets, or vessel or vessels, shall 

 be guilty of felony, and transported for seven 

 years ; and any person or persons refusing to per- 

 mit such peace-officer or officers, or conservator or 

 conservators, to search his, her, or their vessel or 

 vessels, either on shore or at sea, for such unlawful 

 net or nets, after producing the warrant from such 

 magistrate, or shall obstruct such peace-officer or 

 any officer or conservator appointed under this act, 

 either relating to the salmon fisheries, or otherwise in 

 the execution of his duty, he, she, or they shall forfeit 

 the register of the said vessel or vessels, so refused 

 to be searched, and such vessel or vessels, by order 

 of the collector of the customs of the port to which 

 such vessel belongs, shall not be allowed to go to 

 sea without being liable to seizure, as contraband 

 or seizable property, until the owner or commander 

 of such vessel shall have delivered up such unlaw- 

 ful net or nets, if he or they have any such, and shall 

 have given security to such collector of customs not 

 to violate or disobey this act, for the time then to 

 come, and shall also enter into recognizance with two 

 sufficient sureties, to answer and make amends for any 



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