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Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868

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25Amendment of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 95.

In order the better to carry out the Provisions of the Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-five, it shall be lawful for any Water Bailiff, Constable, Watcher, or Officer of any District Board, or any Police Officer, to search all Boats, Boat Tackle, Nets, or other Engines, and all Receptacles, whether at Sea or on Shore, which he or they may have reason to suspect may contain Salmon captured in contravention of the said last-mentioned 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 he held primâ facie Evidence of the Purpose of the Possessor to contravene the Provisions of the said last-mentioned Act: Provided also, that the Words " the said recited Act " contained in the Second Section of the last-mentioned Act shall he read and construed as if they meant and included this Act and the Acts recited therein.

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