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reasonable wideness after the old assize used or 

 accustomed; and they shall appoint under-con- 

 servators, who shall be sworn to make like sur- 

 vey, search, and punishment. And they shall 

 enquire in session, as well by their office, as at 

 the information of the under-conservators, of all 

 defaults aforesaid, and shall cause them which 

 shall be thereof indicted, to come before them ; 

 and if they shall be thereof convicted, they strati 

 have imprisonment, and make fine at the discre- 

 tion of the justices ; and if the same be at the in- 

 ionnation of an under-conservator, lie shall have 

 half the fine. 17 R. 2. c. 9. 



3. By the 1 Eliz. c. 17. No person, of what 

 estate, degree, and condition soever he be, shall 

 take and kill any young brood, spawn, or fry of 

 fish ; nor shall take or kill any salmon or trouts, 

 not being in season, being kepper and shedder, 

 nor any pike or pikerel, not being in length ten 

 inches fish or more ; nor any salmon, noi being in 

 length sixteen inches fish ; nor any barbel, not 

 btiing in length twelve inches : and no person 

 shall fish, or take fish, by any device, but only 

 with a net or trammel, whereof the mash shall 

 be two inches and a half broad, (angling ex- 

 cepted, and except smelts, loches, minnows, bull- 

 heads, gudgeons, arid eels;} on pain of forfeiting 

 120s. for every offence, and also the fish, nets, and 



engines. 



Note. In some editions of the statutes it is 

 in others 20s. in the records it is not distinguish- 

 able whether it is pounds or shillings. The lat- 

 ter seems more adequate to the offence. 



And the conservators of rivers may enquire 

 hereof by a jury ; and in such case they shall have 

 the fines. 



