144 ART OF ANGLING. 



able fish, or fish out of season, or any smelt not 

 five inches long ; and any person may seize the 

 same, together with the baskets and package, 

 and charge a constable or other peace officer 

 with the offender and with the goods, who shall 

 carry them before a justice ; and on conviction 

 before such justice, the same shall be forfeited 

 and delivered to the prosecutor ; and the offen- 

 der shall besides forfeit 20s. to be levied by dis- 

 tress by warrant of such justice, and distributed 

 half to the prosecutor and half to the poor of 

 the parish where the offence was committed 

 (and any inhabitant of such parish, nevertheless, 

 may be a witness) ; for want of sufficient dis- 

 tress, to be committed to the house of correc- 

 tion to be kept to hard labour for any time not 

 exceeding three months, unless the forfeiture be 

 sooner paid. Provided, that the justice may 

 mitigate; the said penalty, so as not to remit a- 

 bove one half. Persons aggrieved may appeal 

 to the next sessions. And the form of the con- 

 viction may be thus : 



Be it remembered, that on this day of 



in the year of the reign of- 



A. O. is convicted before me one of his 



majesty s justices of the peace for the of 



and I do adjudge him to pay and forfeit 



the sum of- -. Given under my hand and 



seal the day and year above-said, s. 13, 15, 10, 

 17, 18, 19. 



