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a title, or without express written permission from one 

 who has a title, is, in the eye of the law, a poacher and 

 liable to be prosecuted. (1844 Act, Section i.) 



Private Rights 



These are too involved to permit of a useful sum- 

 mary being given. 



Close Times 



These vary in different localities. The foundation 

 for them is Schedule C annexed to the 1868 Act, but 

 several alterations have since been made, under powers 

 contained in that Act, on petition by District Fishery 

 Boards to the Secretary for Scotland. The appended 

 Table (see p. 380) gives a compendium of the close 

 times for the whole of Scotland as in force at January 



1910. 



Exercise of the Right 



Apart from some few survivals of an ancient time, 

 the result of special Border legislation, the only legal 

 means of netting salmon within rivers and estuaries 

 is by " net and coble," and also, of course, by a land- 

 ing net used as an adjunct to rod and line. The limits 

 of all estuaries are laid down in Schedule B annexed 

 to the 1868 Act. The legal mesh of a salmon net is 

 not less than " if in. in extension from knot to knot, 

 measured on each side of the square, or 7 in. measured 

 round each mesh when wet"; while any device, such as 

 placing two nets together, intended to diminish the 

 mesh, is illegal. (Schedule E, 1868 Act.) The centre 



