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' charges all fishing of salmon from Saturday at twelve of 

 ' the clock at night, till Sunday at twelve of the clock at 

 ' night ; and because all manner of sorting fish for export 

 ' with Scots salt is hereby discharged, therefore her 

 ' Majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, strictly pro- 

 ' hibits and discharges the importation of all English or 

 ' Irish salt from and after the first day of October next to 

 ' come, under the penalty of one thousand merks Scots 

 ' money, to be exacted from and paid by the seller, im- 

 ' porter, and buyer, toties quoties, confiscation of the ship, 

 ' bark, and boat wherein it is imported, and in case of the 

 ' importing the same by horses, confiscation both of the 

 ' horse and salt, and the carrier to be fined in twenty 

 ' pounds Scots, and punished in his person by twenty 

 ' days' imprisonment, and any person having commission 

 ' from the salt master, or any of them, is empowered to 

 ' seize the said salt, ships, barks, boats, or horses, and to 

 ' pursue the contra vener hereof, before any magistrate or 

 ' justice of peace whatsoever, who are hereby empowered 

 ' and required to put the same to due execution, declaring 

 * that the one-half of the said fines and seizures shall 

 ' belong to the apprehenders and pursuers, and the 

 ' other half to the poor of the parish where the trans- 

 ' gression is committed. Lastly, her Majesty, with ad- 

 ' vice and consent aforesaid, ratifies and approves all 

 ' benefits, priviledges, and immunities already granted 

 ' by any Acts of Parliament in favour of the white her- 

 ' ring, and salmon fishings, and all persons concerned 

 ' therein.'* 



The union of the two kingdoms in 1707 had a very 

 injurious effect on the herring fishery, on account of the 

 high duties on salt then introduced, the unsettled state of 



* Queen Anne, 1st Parliament, 3d Session, 6th July 1704. 



