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possession of any person fishing in any river or 

 fishery, without the consent of the owner or oc- 

 cupier thereof. And also, any person authorized 

 by a justice's warrant, may in the day time 

 search the houses, out-houses, and other places, 

 of any person hereby prohibited to have or keep 

 the same, who shall be suspected to have or 

 keep in his custody or possession any net, angle, 

 leap, piche, or other engine aforessid, and seize 

 ^ii-i keep the same to his own use, or cut and 

 destroy the same, as things by this act pro- 

 hibited to be kept by persons of their degree. 

 4. and 5. W. c. 23. s 5. 6. 



6. Iff ny person shall enter into any park or 

 paddock, fenced in and inclosed, or into any 

 garden, orchard, or yard, adjoining or belonging 

 to any dwelling-house in or through which park 

 or paddock, garden, orchard, or yard, any stream 

 of water or river shall run or be, or wherein shall 

 be any river, stream, pool, pond, mote, stew, or 

 other water, and by any ways, means, or advice, 

 whatever, shall steal, take, kill, or destroy any 

 fish, bred, kept, or preserved therein, without 

 the consent of the owner thereof; or shail be 

 aiding or assisting therein; or shall receive or 

 buy any such fish, knowing the same to be sto- 

 len or taken as aforesaid ; and shall be convicted 

 thereof at the assizes, within six calendar 

 mouths after the offence committed; he shall be 

 transported for seven years. And any offender 

 surrendering himself to a justice, or being ap- 

 prehended, or in custody for such offence, or on 

 any other account, who shall make confession 

 thereof, and a true discovery, on .oath, of his 

 accomplice or accomplices, so as such accom- 

 plice may be apprehended, and shall on trial 

 give evidence so as to convict such accornr 



