kn'2 THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



IX. Provides that the penalties above mentioned shall 

 go to the informer, and be recoverable before the Sheriff 

 and Justice of Peace courts. 



X. That it shall be lawful for any two proprietors of 

 fishings to call meetings of the other proprietors, by three 

 several advertisements ; at which meetings it shall be held 

 lawful to assess one and all of the said proprietors for the 

 purpose of enforcing the said act, and appointing clerks, 

 bailiffs, and other officers. 



XI. That it shall be lawful to detain offenders against 

 the above provisions of the act, without any warrant, and 

 to bring them before Justice of Peace or other competent 

 courts. 



XII. That Justices of Peace, although interested, if not 

 parties, may act against offenders, or give evidence against 

 them. 



XIII. That no prosecution, unless instituted within six 

 months of the offence, shall hold good against parties. 



XIV. That this act shall not extend to Tweed and its 

 tributaries, nor to those rivers lying in the counties of 

 Dumfries, Wigton, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 



A local act was also passed in the llth year of George 

 the Fourth, chapter liv. for the effectual preservation and 

 improvement of salmon fisheries on the Tweed and its 

 tributaries, rescinding all former statutes, and providing 

 new regulations in their stead ; which provisions are, in 

 some respects, similar to those enforced by the general sta- 

 tute on our northern rivers, with this leading exception, 

 that the opening of Tweed does not take place until the 

 15th of February, nor does it close before the 15th of Oc- 

 tober ; moreover, it is allowed on this river to angle with 

 the rod until the first day of November. 



The minor provisions of this act are, perhaps, somewhat 

 too tyrannical and destructive of public liberties ; for we 

 hold it to be at the option of none to increase the value of 

 their landed property by impairing the natural rights of 

 usage, which, on contrasting the statute of May 29th, 

 1830, relative to the Tweed fisheries, with other previous 

 enactments, appears to us to have been the case. 



By the act regulating the salmon fisheries in Dumfries- 

 shire, the rivers in that county running into the Solwav 

 Firth, open on the 10th of March, and close on the 25th 

 of September. 



With regard to the act of 1828, for the preservation of our 



