A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-fisheries: And of the Statute Laws by which They are Regulated ... Comprehending Also the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon ... Together with the Form of a New Act, Designed to Remedy the Evils So Generally Complained Of; and an Abstract of the Evidence Before the Committee of the House of Commons Upon the Subject, with Notes |
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... fish - locks and stake- nets , or to prove that salmon peal are not young salmon , let the public rather judge of these questions by the evidence of facts , experiments , and comparative reasoning , than be influenced by assertions ...
... fish - locks and stake- nets , or to prove that salmon peal are not young salmon , let the public rather judge of these questions by the evidence of facts , experiments , and comparative reasoning , than be influenced by assertions ...
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... fish - locks in the face of open day ; in defiance of all law , they may be seen , not merely drawn , but swept , the water being absolutely strained through a net of a one inch mesh , when the law requires that such mesh shall be never ...
... fish - locks in the face of open day ; in defiance of all law , they may be seen , not merely drawn , but swept , the water being absolutely strained through a net of a one inch mesh , when the law requires that such mesh shall be never ...
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... fish by the spear when in the very act of shed . ding its roe ; and whilst locks , traps , and hutches , and all sorts of cunning devices are erected to catch unseasonable fish in going up the rivers , and to prevent the old back or spent ...
... fish by the spear when in the very act of shed . ding its roe ; and whilst locks , traps , and hutches , and all sorts of cunning devices are erected to catch unseasonable fish in going up the rivers , and to prevent the old back or spent ...
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... fish fair play , where at present he meets with only foul play and unmerciful treatment . It is only requisite that the transaction be honestly and openly conducted ; there must be no par- tiality , no sneaking after fish - locks , no ...
... fish fair play , where at present he meets with only foul play and unmerciful treatment . It is only requisite that the transaction be honestly and openly conducted ; there must be no par- tiality , no sneaking after fish - locks , no ...
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... fish is compelled by necessity when withheld from those to which nature directs him , becomes abortive . Why this ... locks . The situation of the spent fish above the weirs is just as bad ; they are hemmed in , and prevented from ...
... fish is compelled by necessity when withheld from those to which nature directs him , becomes abortive . Why this ... locks . The situation of the spent fish above the weirs is just as bad ; they are hemmed in , and prevented from ...
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Page 110 - ... the defendant or defendants in such issue"1 action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act, and the special matter, in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this act...
Page 111 - Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff...
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Page 109 - Majesty, his heirs and successors; one third to the governor of the plantation where such person shall so offend; and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesty's courts in...
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Page 200 - AND be it enacted, that no prosecution or other proceeding whatever shall be brought or commenced against any person for any offence against this Act, unless the same shall be commenced within six calendar months after such offence shall have been committed. X. AND be it enacted, that the words " river,"
Page 49 - Thy fame is just, the sage replies ; Thy virtue proves thee truly wise. Pride often guides the author's pen ; Books as affected are as men : But he who studies nature's laws, From certain truth his maxims draws ; And those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good, and wise.
Page 113 - London and the liberties thereof, or the rights, interests, privileges, franchises, or authorities of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, or their successors, or the lord mayor and aldermen of the said city...
Page 160 - We will not hold the lands of them that be convict of felony but one year and one day and then those lands shall be delivered to the lord of the fee. Chapter 23. Weirs All weirs from henceforth shall be utterly put down by Thames and Medway, and through all England, but only by the seacoast.
Page 161 - I remem" ber that the stells erected in the river Eden by *' the late Lord Lonsdale and the Corporation of *' Carlisle, whereby all the fish were stopped in " their passage up the river, were pronounced in " this court, upon a motion for a new trial, to be " illegal, and a public nuisance.