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 A. D 1714* Anno primo Georgii Regis. Stat. 2. C. 18. 45 VI. And it is hereby further enacted and provided. That where any illegal Nets of Icl, or Moke flleg than three Inches and Half at leaft from Knot 1 1 Knot, or of falfe or double Bottom, Cod or Pu tch, flial.l b« t> be proved as aforefaid, to have been forfeited, fuch Net or Nets fhall, by Warrant of fuch J ftices be pubUcMy burnt. VII. And for the further Prefervation of the faid Fry of Fifh, Be it enacted by the Authority ajbjre- p? naIty_of fcl- faid, fand ex 1 fhall not 'be of the' fevcral Lengths or Sizes following, from the Eyes to the utmoft Extent of the Tail, (viz.) every Bret or Turbet, fixteen Inches ; every Brill or Pearl, fourteen Inches j every Codlin, twelve Inches ; every Whiting, fix Inches ; every Bafs and Mullet, twelve Inches ; every Sole eight Inches ; every Place or Dab, eight Inches ; and every Flounder, feven Inches ; all and every Perfon and Perfons fo offending fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit all and every fuch unfizeable Fifh £q brought on Shore, fold offered, or expofed to fale, or exchanged, as aforefaid, to the Poor of the Parifh or Place where fuch Offence fhall be committed, and alio fhall, for every fuch Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of twenty Shillings of lawful Money of Great Britain, one Moiety thereof to the Informer, and the other Moiety thereof to the Poor of the Parifh or Place where the Offence fhall be committed, and to be levied and re- covered as other Penalties by this Act inflicted are directed to be levied and recovered ; and in Default of Payment of the faid Forfeiture, or of fufHcient Diftrefs for Satisfaction thereof, the Offender fhall, by Warrant of one or more Tuftice or Juftices of the Peace, be fent to the next Houfe or Houfes of Correc- tion, or other common Gaol or Prifon of any County, City, Town or Place where fuch Offence fhall be committed, there to be feverely whipt, and kept to hard Labour for the Space of fix Days, and not longer than fourteen Days. VIII. Provided always, That where any Perfon fhall fuffer Imprifonment purfuant to this Act, for any Perfons differing. Offence contrary hereunto, in Default of Payment of, or fufHcient Diftrefs for any Penalty hereby impo- Impnfcnitent fed ; fuch Perfon fhall not be liable afterwards to pay fuch Penalty. f u °ch P^naky. IX. Provided alfo, That no Perfon fhall fuffer any Punifhment for any Offence committed againft this pJfecution in. Act, unlefs the Profecution for the fame be commenced within one Month after fuch Offence committed ; one Month. _, any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. ' X. And whereas by an Act made in the tenth and eleventh Years of King William, the Third, inti- ' tuled, An Ael for making Billingfgate a free Market for Sale of Fiji, the Importation of Lobfters and ' Turbets in Foreign Veflels is prohibited : And whereas the faid Prohibition has made Lobfters and Tur- ' bets much dearer than they were before the paffing the faid Act ;' For Remedy whereof, and for the better fupplying this Kingdom with Lobfters and Turbets at reafonable Rates, Be it further enacted by the Lobfters and Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for any Perfon whatfoever, as well Foreign- Turbets may ers as Britijb, freely to import, bring into, and fell in the Kingdom of Great Britain, in any Ship or Vef- be imported as fel whatfoever, any Quantity of Lobfters or Turbets, whether they be of Foreign or Britifo catching, ' n bcen before the' the fame Manner they might have done before the faid recited Act of the tenth and eleventh Years of the a q. 1q & „ Reign of his late Majefty King William was made ; any Thingin the faid Act, or any other Act fmce made, w. 3. c 24, or Ufage, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. ' XL And whereas in an Act of Parliament paffed in the fourth and fifth Years of the Reign of her c late Majefty Queen Anne, intituled, An ASi far the Encreafe and better Prefervation of Salmon, and other 1 Fijh in the Rivers within the Counties of Southampton and Wilts, there is contained a Claufe whereby it 4 is enacted, That no Perfon or Perfons (not being duly cjualified) fliould thereafter kill, deftroy, or wil- The chufe io> ' fully hurt any Salmon or Salmon-kind, or any other Fifh ; and that neither they, nor any other Perfon4- & 5 Ann ' or Perfons whatfoever, fhould or might, at any Time or Times after the thirtieth Day of June which c ' "l" reljt '?£ ' Salmon-peal or Salmon-kind, by Hawks, Racks, Gins, Nets, Angles, or other Devifes whatfoever,, repealed, fo for ' until after the eleventh Day of November in every Year, or offer to Sale any of the faid Fifh fo taken, as it relates to by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Claufe, fo far as the fame doth and may concern the EefperSrivfe ^ &Kia m"nti- Owners and Proprietors of the Fifhery and Fifhing in the refpective Rivers in the faid Act mentioned, andoned. every other Perfon and Perfons entitled to fifh in the fame, and every of them, and his and their refpective Servants and Agents, and every of them, fhall be and is hereby repealed, and be deemed and taken to be hereby repealed. XII. And it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That it fhall and may be lawful for fuch After Nov. ::, Owners, Proprietors and Perfons, and his and their Servants and Agents, and every or any of them, at 1 ? 1 ^- 'iUAgg.. any Time or Times hereafter, from the eleventh Day of November which fhall be in the Year of our Lord y™. " "^ one thoufand feven hundred and fifteen, until the firft Day of Augiift in every Year, to take, kill or deftroy owners. &c any Salmon, Salmon-peal, or Salmon- kind,, or offer to Sale any of the faid Fifh fo taken between the may take Sal- Times aforefaid. mon » &c - XII I. Provided, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no fuch Owner, Proprietor No r " ch Owner or Perfon aforefaid, or any of his or their Servants or Agents, fhall or may at any Time or Times after fKaH ' a ^ ter .^"S* the firft Day of Auguji which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, and jjjovJW. foi- ^etween that Day and the twelfth Day of November then next following, or at any Time or Times lowing, oi,i». then
 * fhould be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fix, take, kill or deftroy any Salmon, f salmon &c.
 * under the Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures and Imprifonments in the faid Act mentioned ;' Be it enacted r jj e °-T ie . s ai