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vey 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 

 under-conservators, who shall be sworn to make 

 like survey, search and punishment. And they 

 shall inquire in sessions, as well by their office 

 as at the information of the under-conservators, 

 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 if the same 

 be at the information of an under-conservator, 

 he shall have half the fine. 17 R. 2. c. 9. 



3. By the 1 El. c. 17. No person of what 

 estate, degree and condition soever he be, shall 

 take and kill any joung brood, spawn, or fry of 

 fish ; nor shall take and kill any salmon or 

 trouts, not being in season, being kepper or 

 shedder ; nor any pike or pikerel not being in 

 length 10 inches fish or more ; nor any salmon 

 not being in length 16 inches fish ; nor any 

 trout not being in length 8 inches fish ; nor any 

 barbel not being in length 12 inches ; and no 

 person shall fish or take fish by any device, but 

 only with net or trammel, whereof the mesh shall 



