Cattle. For the Exposure to Sale of Horses or other Beasts, Cattle, or Pigs, And so on in proportion for any greater Number; and One or more not exceeding Five to be paid for as a Quarter of a Score. Weighing and Measuring. For weighing every Piece of Meat or any other Article or Thing weighing not more than Twenty Pounds Avoirdupois s. d. For weighing every Piece of Meat or other Article or Thing weighing more than Twenty Pounds and not exceeding One hundred Pounds, One Penny, and so in proportion for any greater or smaller Quantity than One hundred Pounds Weight over and above One hundred Pounds Weight. For measuring any Quantity of Goods and Things sold by Measure, not exceeding One Bushel For measuring every Quantity more than a Bushel and not exceeding Two Bushels And for every Bushel beyond Two Bushels Weighing Machines. s. d. For weighing any Cart or other Carriage, laden or unladen, the Sum of One Halfpenny per Hundredweight. * (Ireland.) ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Repeal of Statutes passed since 1842; Sect. 1. No Acts repealed by Act of 1842 but those therein specified; 2. Seaward Limits of Act; 4. Revival of repealed Part of a Local Act of 28 Hen. 8. c. 22. as to Destruction of Spawn, &c., in Weirs on the Barrow, &c.; 5. Revival of 10 Car. 1. sess. 2. c. 24. securing to Fishermen the Right of going on high Grounds adjoining the Sea to watch for Fish, and to draw Nets on shore, &c. (copied from 1 Jac. 1. c. 23. (E.); 6. Revival of s. 38. of 59 Geo. 3. c. 109. securing to the Inhabitants of the United Kingdom the Right of fishing on and using the Coasts, Bays, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland; 7. Penalty for setting up a new Weir in Harbours or on Sea Shore, or destroying Fry of Sea Fish therein, or fishing with certain Nets and Engines on the Sea Shore; 8. Revival of 10 Car. 1. sess. 3. c. 14. against taking Salmon or Eels with certain Fixed or Standing Nets; 9. Justices at Quarter Sessions to appoint Conservators for Salmon; 10. And to fix Close Season for Salmon and Salmon Trout; 11. Mode of fixing it as to Rivers forming the Boundaries of Two Counties; 12. If Justices of such Two Counties cannot agree, Justices of next County to fix it; 13. Penalty on throwing noxious Materials into Water for Purpose of taking or injuring Salmon; 14. Penalty on having in Possession Fry of Salmon, &c., or Salmon caught during Close Season; 15. Illegal Nets and Engines to be destroyed, and illegal Dams, &c. to be removed; 16. Court may award Costs on Indictment or Information for Nuisances to Rivers, &c., 17. Offences on a River forming a Boundary how to be cognizable; 18. Recovery of Penalties; 19. Justices may grant Warrants for apprehending Offenders; 20. Penalties may be sued for; 21. Form of Conviction; 22. Persons convicted under this Act not to be prosecuted under any other; 23. Appeal; 24. Limitation of Actions and other Proceedings; 25. [Note. The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted W in Committee.] c. 110. and HEREAS the Improvement of the Irish Fisheries is an Preamble. Object of the most essential Importance to the Wealth and See 48 G. 3 Commercial Prosperity, as well as to the Naval Strength, 59 G. 3. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; for the Attain- c. 109. 5 ment of which it is expedient to relieve the Persons engaged in the said Fisheries from all novel and undue Restrictions and Burdens, and to replace them on an Equality in that Behalf with Persons engaged in the Fisheries of England: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords 10 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 15 Repeal of Irish Statutes: I. The several Acts herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) c. 106. An Act passed in the Eighth Year of Her Majesty, Chapter One 7 & 8 Vict. |