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stalkers, nor other nets or engines whatsoever, 

 by which the fry or breed of salmons, lampreys, 

 or any other fish, may in any wise be taken and 

 destroyed: on the like pain. 13. R.2. st. I.e. 19. 



And the waters of Lon, Wyre, Mersey, Kib- 

 ble, and all other waters in Lancashire, shall be 

 put in defence as to taking of salmon from 

 Michaelmas, to Candlemas, and in no other time 

 of the year. And conservators shall be appointed 

 in like manner. 13. R. 2. st.l, c. 19. 



And the justices of the peace (and the mayor 

 of London, on the Thames and Medway,) shall 

 survey the offences in both the acts above-men- 

 tioned ; and shall survey and search all the wears 

 in such rivers ; that they shall not be very strait 

 for the destruction of such fry and brood, but of 

 reasonable wideness after the old assize used or 

 accustomed ; and they shall appoint imder-con- 

 servators, who shall be sworn to make like sur- 

 vey, search, and punishment. And they shall 

 ^enquire in sessions, as well by their office, as at 

 the information of the under-conversators of all 

 defaults aforesaid, and shall cause them which 

 shall be thereof indicted, to come before them ; 

 ^and if they be thereof convicted, they shall have 

 imprisonment, and make fine at the discretion 

 of the justices : and ir' the same be at the 

 information of an under-conversator, he shall 

 have half the fine. 17. R. 2. c. 9., 



3. By the 1 Eliz, c. 17. ^No person, of what 

 estate, degree, and condition soever he be, shall 

 =take and kill any young brood, spawn, or fry of 

 fish ; nor shall take or kill any salmon or trouts 

 not being in season, being kepper and shedder ; 

 nor any pike or pikerel, not being in length ten 

 iirvches fish or more ; nor any salmon, not being 



