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For over thirty years Mr C. J. Green continued to act as 

 Secretary to the Society, but in 1901 he was compelled, by reason of 

 his increasing years, to resign in favour of Mr A. J. Rudd. The 

 members of the Society at present number 257 ; it has an income of 

 about 150 per annum, of which at least 25 is contributed by the 

 Great Eastern Railway Company, 15, 15s. is subscribed byway 

 of fees from local angling clubs (of which there are over seventy 

 in the city of Norwich alone), whilst under ,2 is taken from the 

 many collection boxes which are scattered all over Broadland. 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK FISHERIES ACT, 1877. 



(40 and 41 Viet., c. XCVIII.} 



AN ACT to preserve the Fisheries in the Navigable Rivers and 

 Broads of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and of t lie 

 County of the City of Norwich (12th July 1877). 



WHEREAS the Fisheries in the Navigable Rivers of the Counties of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk and the County of the City of Norwich and in 

 the Broads connected with such Rivers have of late years been 

 greatly injured and it is expedient that better provision be made for 

 preserving and increasing the same but that object cannot be 

 accomplished without the authority of Parliament. May it there- 

 fore please Your Majesty that it be enacted by the Queen's Most 

 Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 

 Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament 

 assembled and by the authority of the same as follows : 



1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk Fisheries Act 1877. 



2. This Act shall extend and apply only to the navigable rivers 

 in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and the County of the City 

 of Norwich and to the Broads connected with such and shall not 

 include the sea or sea-coast. 



3. The Justices of the Peace of the Counties of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk and of the City and County of the City of Norwich at any 

 Court of Quarter Sessions held in and for their respective counties 

 after the passing of this Act (due notice having been previously given 

 according to the practice of such Sessions) and the Mayor Alder- 

 men and Burgesses of the Boroughs of King's Lynn and Sudbury 

 (hereinafter called the Corporation) shall have power to appoint 

 Conservators as follows (that is to say) the Justices of the County 

 of Norfolk twenty Conservators, the Justices of the County of 



