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Pike, Jack, perch, roach, dace, chub, barbel, and gudgeon may 

 be taken between ist July and ist March. 



Bottom-fishing is prohibited in the river Thames, as far as the 

 Corporation of London has jurisdiction, from the ist March to the 

 ist June. 



The right of fishing in the sea, and in all rivers where the tide 

 ebbs and flows, is a right common to all the king's subjects. 



Any person or persons considering themselves wronged or ag- 

 grieved by any decision against them by the magistrate or justice, 

 may appeal against it at the quarter sessions. 



PROTECTION OF PRESERVES. 



" That no person shall fish with any sort of well, reel, night-hook, 

 any other device, except by angling in, or make use of any net, 

 engine, or device to drive the fish out of any place which shall be 

 staked by order of the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the 

 time being, as conservator aforesaid, for the preservation of the 

 fishery, and whereof notice shall be stuck up in some public place 

 of the town or village next adjoining to the place or places so 

 ordered to be staked ; and that no person shall take up or remove 

 any stake, burr, boat, or anything which shall have been driven 

 down or sunk in any such place as aforesaid, upon pain to forfeit 

 and pay from time to time the sum of five pounds for every offence 

 or breach of any part of this order " City Ordinance, Mem. 44. 



