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L.20, and all nets used shall be liable to be seized and 

 forfeited. 



" 3d, The Commissioners may from time to time make 

 such regulations as they shall think fit for the more 

 effectual government, management, and protection of the 

 herring fishery on the coasts of Scotland, and for the pre- 

 servation of order ; and any person who commits any 

 breach in contravention of any such regulation shall be 

 liable to have his boat detained, and to a penalty of L.5, 

 and not exceeding L.20, for every offence. 



4:th, The Commissioners may, on application, prohibit 

 on the coasts of Scotland the use of any trawl, drag, or 

 beam net injurious to the spawn of herring or the herring 

 fishery ; and any breach of such prohibition will subject 

 the offender to L.5, and not exceeding L.20. 



5th, The Commissioners may rescind, alter, or amend 

 any regulations made by the authority of this Act ; and all 

 such regulations must be submitted to the Lords of the 

 Treasury for approval, and be duly published by printed 

 copies, and exhibited for two weeks before taking effect. 



QtJi, Any breach of the provisions of the 6th section of 

 the Act 14 and 15 Vict. cap. 26, shall subject the offender 

 to a penalty not under L.6 and not over L.20, together 

 with forfeiture of the net. 



ItJi, All boats, sails, buoys, and all other implements of 

 fishing belonging to small boats, shall be marked under such 

 regulations as the Commissioners may issue, and, if not so 

 marked, shall be liable to seizure, and may be detained for 

 a period not exceeding one month ; and all boats shall 

 have the name of the owner, and the port or place to which 

 she belongs, painted in white or yellow Koman letters, of 

 two inches in length, on a black ground, and may be seized 

 and detained for one month if such are awanting. 



