No Salmon or Shad to be taken or killed on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in every week; and no Salmon to be killed in any way after the 20th of August, under penalty of £3.
Recovery.
Application.
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I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That no Salmon or Shad, during the continuance of this Act, shall be taken or killed in the said River and its Branches, either with Nets or Spears or in any other way on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in every week, and that no Salmon shall be taken or killed by any ways or means in any part of the said River and its Branches, after the twentieth day of August in each and every year, and that any person or persons guilty of a breach of this Act, upon due conviction thereof by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before any one Justice of the Peace of the said County, shall forfeit the sum of three pounds, to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, rendering to him the overplus, if any, after deducting the costs and charges of prosecution, and if no goods and chattels can be found whereon to levy the same, then the offender to be committed by warrant, to the County Gaol, there to remain for any time not exceeding twelve days, unless the penalty and costs shall be sooner paid, and the said penalty when recovered, shall be paid, one moiety into the hands of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish where the offence may have been committed, and the other moiety to the person who shall prosecute for the same.
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No Person to make use of Seines or Set Nets or erect Wears for taking Fish above the Bend of the River.
Penalty on conviction.
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II. And be it further enacted, That no person or persons, during the continuance of this Act, at any time or under any pretence whatsoever, shall for the taking or killing of Salmon or Shad in the said River or its Branches, make use of any Seine or Seines, set Net or set Nets, or erect any Wear or Wears, for the taking of such Fish above the Bend of the said River or above a place called Dupnack's Landing; and that any person or persons making use of any of the means herein specified and prohibited for the procuring of the said Fish, shall, upon conviction as aforesaid, incur the same penalties, to be sued for, prosecuted and recovered in the same manner as directed by the first Section of this Act.
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