138 ART OF ANGLING. 



Tees, Kibble, Mersey, Don, Air, Ouze, Swale, 

 Calder, Wharf, Eure, Darwent, or Trent, where- 

 by the spawn or fry of salmon, or any kepper 

 or shedder salmon, or any salmon not 18 inches 

 from the eye to the extent of the middle of the 

 tail, shall be taken and killed ; or shall set any 

 bank, dam, hedge, stank, or net cross the same, 

 whereby the salmon may be taken, or hindered 

 from passing up to spawn ; or shall, between 

 July 31, and Nov. 12, (except in the Kibble, 

 where they may be taken between Jan. 1, and 

 Sept. 15,) take any salmon of any kind in any 

 of the said rivers ; or shall, after Nov. 12, yearly 

 fish there for salmon with any net less than 2| 

 inches in the mesh ; he shall on conviction, in 

 one month, before one justice, on view, confes- 

 sion, or oath of one witness, forfeit 5 and the 

 fish, nets, and engines ; half the said sum to the 

 informer, and half to the poor, by distress ; for 

 want of distress, to be committed to the house 

 of correction, or gaol, not more than three 

 months, nor less than one, to be kept to hard 

 labour, and suffer such other corporal punish- 

 ment as the justice shall think fit. The nets 

 and engines to be cut or destroyed, in the 

 presence of the justice. The banks, dams, 

 hedges and stanks, to be demolished at the 

 charge of the offender, to be levied in like man- 

 ner. 1 G. st. 2. c. 18. s. 14. 



