GAME LAWS. 153 



Kibble, Mersey, Dun, Air, Ouze, Swaile, Caldep 

 Wharfe, Eure, Danvent, or Trent, whereby the 

 spawn or fry of salmon, or any kepper or shedder 

 salmon, or any salmon not 18 inches from the eye 

 to the extent of the middle of the tail, shall be 

 taken and killed ; or shal 1 set any bank,dam, hedge, 

 stank, or net across the same, whereby the salmon 

 may be taken, or hindered from passing up to 

 spawn, or shall between July 31, and November 

 12, (except in the Kibble, where they may be 

 taken between Jan. 1, and Sept. 15,) take any 

 salmon of any kind in any of the said rivers, or 

 shall, after Nov. 1 2, yearly, fish there for salmon, 

 with any net less than 2f inches in the mesh ; he 

 shall, on conviction, in one month, before one 

 justice, on view, confession, or oath of one wit- 

 ness, forfeit 5L and the fish, nets, and engines; 

 half the said sum to the informer, and half to the 

 poor, by distress; for want of distress, to be 

 committed to the house of correction or goal, not 

 more than three months, nor less than one, to be 

 kept to hard labour, and to suffer such other cor- 

 poral punishment as the justice shall think fit: the 

 netsand engines to be cut or destroyed, in presence 

 of thejustice: the banks,dams,hedges,andstanks, 

 to be demolished at the charge of the offender, 

 to be levied in like manner: 1. G.st,2.c. 18. s. 14. 



Note. It is not said who shall have the fish ; so 

 that it seerns they are forfeited to the king. 



And no salmon out of the said rivers shall be 

 sent to London, under six pounds weight; on pain 

 that the sender, buyer, or seller, on the like con- 

 viction, shall forfeit 5l. and the fish ; half to the 

 informer and half to the poor, by distress; for 

 want of sufficient distress, to be committed to tire 

 house of correction or goal, to be kept to hard 



