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labour, and to suffer such other corporal punish- 

 ment as the justice shall think fit : the nets and 

 engines to be cut or destroyed in presence of 

 the justice ; the banks, dams, hedges, and stanks, 

 to be demolished at the charge of the offender, 

 to be levied in like manner : 1 G. st. . c. 18. s 

 14. Note. It is not said who shall have the fish ; 

 so that it seemeth they are forfeited to the king. 



And no salmon out of the said rivers shall be 

 sent to London, under six pounds weight ; on 

 pain that the sender, buyer, or seller, on the like 

 conviction, shall forfeit ol. and the fish ; half to 

 the informer and half to the poor, by distress ; 

 for want of sufficient distress, to be committed 

 to the house of correction or gaol, to be kept 

 to hard labour for three months, if not paid in 

 the mean time. Id. S. 15. 



And person aggrieved may appeal to the next 

 Sessions. Id. S. 17. 



2. No salmon shall be taken in the Humber, 

 Ouze, Trent, Done, Aire, Darwent, Wharfe, 

 Nid, Yore, Swale, Tees, Tyne, Eden, or any 

 other water wherein Salmon are taken, between 

 Sept. 8 and Nov. 11. Nor shall any young 

 salmon be taken at millpools (nor in otherplaces, 

 13 R. <2. st. I.e. 19.) from Mid- April to Mid-- 

 summer, on pain of having the nets and engines 

 burnt for the first offence ; for the second, 

 imprisonment for a quarter of a year ; for the 

 third, a whole year ; and, as the trespass in> 

 creaseth, so shall the punishment. And over- 

 seers shall be assigned to enquire, thereof. 13. 

 Ed. 1. st. 1. c. 47. That is, under the great seal, 

 and by authority of parliament. 2. Inst. 477* 



And no person shall put in the waters of Tha- 

 mise, Humber, Ouze, Trent, nor any other 

 waters in any time of the year, any nets called 



