THE SALMON AND CHANNEL FISHERIES. 183 



" between the 29th September and the 2d February, and 

 " that none of the said fish hereinbefore mentioned, of what- 

 66 ever kind or description the same may be, shall at any 

 " time be pursued, taken, killed, or destroyed, or attempted 

 " so to be, or to be otherwise hurt or injured within the 

 " said rivers, at any time of the year on a SUNDAY." 



Offenders may be convicted before any justice, either upon 

 view of such justice, or confession of such offender, or by 

 the oath of one or more credible witness, or the oath of 

 any such owner, proprietor, or other such person legally 

 entitled to fish as aforesaid, or his servants, who shall be 

 competent witnesses : penalty not less than 21. or more than 

 51., forfeiture offish and engines; second offence, not less 

 than 2/. nor more than I0l., with fish and engines ; one half 

 to the poor, the other to the informer, to be levied by dis- 

 tress and sale ; in default, commitment to hard labour, not 

 exceeding six months nor less than two. Justices shall 

 order the nets and engines to be seized and cut in pieces. 

 May appeal to the next sessions, entering into recogni- 

 zances, with sufficient sureties, to abide the event of the 

 appeal. Ten days notice in writing. Justices to determine 

 the matter of appeal, and give such costs as they shall think 

 proper. Costs may be levied by distress and sale. De- 

 termination of the sessions to be final, and not removable 

 by certiorari or any other writ. A public act. Judges 

 shall take notice of it without being specially pleaded. 



The preamble to this act directly acknowledges 

 the force and effect of the statutes of Edward the 

 First and Richard the Second, and professes to be 

 passed for the express purpose of altering the times 

 mentioned in those acts for taking salmon. I 

 mention this fact as an answer to those who fre- 



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