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Appendices to Ninth Annual Report 
Section 3 of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act Amendment Act, 1890, 
amending foregoing Act : — 
3. The 3rd Sub-section of the 6th Section of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) 
Act, 1889, is hereby repealed, and in j^lace thereof the following provision 
shall have effect : — 
Any person who uses any method of fishing in contravention of the 6th 
Section of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, or of any Bye-Law of the 
Fishery Board duly confirmed, shall be liable, on conviction under the 
Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding £100 ; and 
failing immediate payment of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not 
exceeding sixty days, without prejudice to diligence by poinding or arrestment, 
if no imprisonment has followed on the conviction ; and every net set, or 
attempted to be set, in contravention of this section shall be forfeited, and may 
be seized and destroyed or otherwise disposed of by any superintendent of 
the herring fishery or other officer employed in the execution of the Herring 
Fishery (Scotland) Acts. 
The Bye-Laws made by the Fishery Board for Scotland, under the powers 
conferred upon them by the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, 
and now in force, are as follow : — 
Bye-Law (No. 6) made by the Fishery Board for Scotland, under the 
powers conferred on the Board by the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) 
Amendment Act, 1885, and the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 
1889. 
L This Bye-Law shall extend and apply to the waters inside of a line 
drawn from Garroch Head, Island of Bute, to Gull Point, Little Cumbrae, 
and thence to Portincross Castle on the Ayrshire Coast, and a line drawn from 
Colintraive Hotel, Argyleshire, to a point due south (magnetic) on the Island 
of Bute. 
II. From and after the date when this Bye-Law shall come into force 
until the 30th April 1890 inclusive, and thereafter from the 1st of August to 
the 30th of April, both inclusive, annually, it shall be lawful, within the said 
limits, to fish by means of a beam trawl, provided the boat from which the 
same is used is a sailing vessel of not more than eight tons burden. 
III. This Bye-Law shall come into force from the date of its confirmation 
by the Secretary for Scotland, 
By Order, 
DUGALD GRAHAM, Secretary. 
Dated at Edinburgh this 24th day of September 1889. 
The foregoing Bye-Law having been submitted to me, in pursuance of 
Section 6, Sub-section 2, of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, 1 hereby 
confirm the same. 
LOTHIAN, 
Her Majesty's Secretary for ( l.s. j 
Scotland. — ^ 
Office of the Secretary for Scotland, 
Whitehall, 26th November 1889. 
Bye-Law (No. 7) made by the Fishery Board for Scotland, under the 
powers conferred on the Board by the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) 
Amendment Act, 1885, and the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 
1889. 
I. Whereas, by the Act 52 and 53 Vict. cap. 23, section 6, Beam and 
Trawling have been prohibited within certain limits therein specified, save 
only between such points on the coast or within such other defined areas 
