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or yard, adjoining or belonging to any dwell- 

 ing-house, in or through which park, or pad- 

 dock, garden, orchard, or yard, any stream of 

 water shall run, or wherein shall be any river, 

 stream, pond, pool, moat, stew, or other 

 water, and by any means, or device whatso- 

 ever, shall steal, take, kill, or destroy, ar>y 

 fish, bred or kept therein, without the con- 

 sent of the owner thereof, or shall be aiding 

 therein, or shall receive or buy any such 

 fish, knowing the same to be so stolen o* 

 taken as aforesaid, and shall be convicted 

 thereof at the assizes, within six calendar 

 months after the offence shall be committed, 

 shall be transported for seven years. 

 And any offender, surrendering himself to a 

 justice, or being apprehended, or in custody 

 for such an offence, or on any other account, 

 who shall make confession thereof, and a 

 true discovery, on oath, of his accomplice or 

 accomplices, so as such accomplice may be 

 apprehended, and shall on trial give evidence 

 so as to convict such accomplice, shall be 

 discharged of the offence so by him con- 

 fessed. S L8. 



