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STATUTE LAWS RELATING TO 



water-mill heat, mill-dam, sluice, or cut which commu- 

 nicates therewith ; or to the present modes or methods 

 used for the taking and killing fish therein, other than and 

 as are in this act particularly prohibited. 



6. Penalty may be recovered before one justice upon the 

 oath of one witness. If penalties and costs not paid, justice 

 may order the constable to take charge of the person con- 

 victedj and may grant his warrant to commit the offender, 

 unless the penalties and costs be sooner paid, or otherwise 

 may distrain for the same. Moiety to the informer, after 

 defraying the costs ; the other to the overseers of the poor. 

 In case of insufficient distress, commitment, for the first of- 

 fence, not less than two nor more than four months; 

 second, not exceeding eight months, nor less than six; 

 third, and every other offence, not more than twelve nor 

 less than eight ; to be kept to hard labour, without bail or 

 mainprise. 



7. Justices, on receiving information, may grant war- 

 rant to apprehend offenders. 



8. Owners of fisheries may be witnesses to prove of- 

 fences. 



9. Penalties may be sued for in a summary way, or by 

 action to the use of the informer. Only one imparlance 

 allowed. 



10. Forms of conviction : which shall not be quashed 

 for want of form, nor be moved by certiorari or otherwise, 

 but be final. 



11. Persons convicted under this act not to be prose- 

 cuted under any other. 



12. Appeal to be made to the next, or next but one, 

 general quarter sessions ; not to be heard unless the appel- 

 lant shall, within ten days next after such judgment, and 

 twenty days at the least before the holding such sessions, 

 give and leave in writing, as well at the public office of the 



