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custody for such offence, or procure another to assist him therein, 

 shall be found guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. 



For destroying or killing fish in enclosed ground, being private 

 property, a penalty of five pounds, or imprisonment in the House 

 of Correction for not exceeding six months. 



For breaking into an enclosed or private ground, and stealing or 

 destroying the fish, transportation for seven years, and receivers the 

 same punishment. 



No persons may have in possession or keep any net, angle piche, 

 or other engine for taking fish, but the makers and sellers thereof, 

 and the owner or renter of a river fishery, except fishermen and 

 their apprentices, legally authorized, in navigable rivers ; and the 

 owner or occupier of the said river may seize, and keep, and convert 

 to his own use, every net, &c., which he shall discover laid or used 

 or in the possession of any person thus fishing without his consent. 



Damaging or intruding, by using nettrices, fish-hooks, or other 

 engines to catch fish, without consent of the owner or occupier, 

 subjects the party thus trespassing to any amount of fine the magis- 

 trate or justice orders, provided it exceeds not treble the damages, 

 and to a further fine, not exceeding ten shillings, for the use of the 

 poor of the parish, or imprisonment in the House of Correction, 

 not exceeding one calendar month, unless he enters into a bond, 

 with one surety, in a sum not exceeding ten pounds, not to offend 

 again ; and the justice may cut or destroy the net, c. 



If any person unlawfully or maliciously cut, break down, or de- 

 stroy any head or dam of a fish-pond, or unlawfully fish therein, he 

 shall, at the prosecution of the king or the owner, be imprisoned 

 three months, or pay treble damages, and after such imprisonment, 

 shall find sureties for seven years' good behaviour, or remain in 

 prison till he doth. 



To prevent the fish in the Thames from being improperly de- 

 stroyed, the 3oth of George II. enacts that no person shall fish, 

 or endeavour to take fish, in the said river between London Bridge 

 and Richmond Bridge, with other than lawful nets : 



For salmon, not less than 6 inches in the mesh. 



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