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in the Thames or Medway, or sold, or exposed to or for sale, if 

 caught in the Thames or Medway : 



No salmon of less weight than six pounds. 



No trout of less weight than one pound. 



No pike or jack under twelve inches long from the eye to the 

 length of the tail. 



No perch under eight inches long. 



No flounder under seven inches long. 



No sole under seven inches long. 



No plaice or dab under seven inches long. 



No roach under eight inches long. 



No dace under six inches long. 



No miolt under six inches long. 



No gudgeon under five inches long. 



No whiting under eight inches long. 



No barbel under twelve inches long. 



No chub under nine inches long ; 



Under pain to foi-feit five pounds for every such offence. 



Salmon and trout may be taken only from January 25, to Sep 

 tember 10. 



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

 be taken between July 1 and March 1. 



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

 Corporation of London has jurisdiction, from the 1st of March to 

 the 1st of 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 sub- 

 jects. 



Any person or persons consideringthemselvcswrongedor aggrieved 

 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, rce', 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 uLk-li shall be 



