Parliamentary Papers, Volume 17H.M. Stationery Office, 1875 |
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allowed anglers angling April bailiffs Barrels boats bull trout bye-laws capture cauld clause close season coast constable convicted county Cork county Galway county Mayo County Sligo Ditto drift nets duty evidence expense February fishermen fishing for salmon Galashiels Galway give grilse Hawick Henry Selwin-Ibbetson Hereford Home Department illegal increase inquiry Inspectors Justices kelts killed licence magistrates March miles mill months night November object offence opinion oysters Parliament penalties person poachers poaching police pollution present prohibited proposed proprietors quantity regard river River Shannon river Tweed River Wye rod and line salmon Salmon Fisheries salmon roe Scotland sea trout Secretary Sheriff Sligo smolts spat spawning taken Teviot tion tributaries Tweed Acts Tweed Commissioners Tweed Fisheries Acts upper waters Walkerburn water-bailiffs weekly close-time weir wish witnesses Wye Fishery District yards
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Page 29 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 149 - If he is found in any place, whether public or private, under such circumstances as to satisfy the court before whom he is brought that he was about to commit or to aid in the commission of any offence puniahable on indictment or summary conviction...
Page 28 - ... omit to do any act so required, he shall incur the following penalties ; that is to say, (1) He shall forfeit the net or nets with regard to which such omission has occurred : (2) He shall for each weekly...
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Page 146 - It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon an information on oath that there is probable cause to suspect any breach of the provisions of this act to have been committed on any premises, or any salmon illegally taken or any illegal nets or other engines to...
Page xiv - ... to seize and detain any person who shall be found committing any offence against the provisions of this...
Page 146 - Act, and to seize all salmon found in the possession of persons not having a right to fish salmon, and the possession of such salmon shall be held prima facie evidence of the purpose of the possessor to contravene the provisions of the said last-mentioned Act...
Page 84 - Strokehaul, Dree Draw, or Gaff, (except when the latter Implement may be used solely as auxiliary to angling with Rod and Line, or for the Purpose of removing Fish from any legal Weir or Box by the Owner or Occupier thereof...
Page viii - how far the present use of rivers or running waters in England for the purpose of carrying off the sewage of towns and populous places, and the refuse arising from industrial processes and manufactures, can be prevented without risk to the public health, or serious injury to such processes and manufactures, and how far such sewage and refuse can be utilised and got rid of otherwise than by discharge into rivers or running waters, or rendered harmless before reaching them...
Page 82 - Trawl Boats shall always keep at a Distance of at least Three Miles from all Boats fishing for Herrings or Mackerel with Drift-nets. ARTICLE XXVI. — Whenever Herring or Mackerel Boats...