the value of the property saved does not exceed £1,000, as well as to the cases provided for by the principal act; (2.) Such provisions shall be held to apply whether the salvage service has been rendered within the limits of the United Kingdom or not; (3.) It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or in Ireland for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors, to appoint out of the J.Ps. for any borough or county a rota of J.Ps. by whom jurisdiction in salvage cases shall be exercised. (4.) When no such rota is appointed, it shall be lawful for the salvors, by writing addressed to the J.P's clerk, to name one J.P., and for the owner of the property saved in like manner to name the other. (5.) If either party fails to name a J.P. within a reasonable time, the case may be tried by two or more J.Ps. at petty sessions. (6.) It shall be competent for any stipendiary magistrate, and also in England for any county court judge, in Scotland for the sheriff or sheriff-substitute of any county, and in Ireland for the recorder of any borough in which there is a recorder, or for the chairman of quarter sessions in any county, to exercise the same jurisdiction in salvage cases as is given to two J.Ps. (7.) It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State to determine a scale of costs to be awarded in salvage cases by any such J.Ps. or court as aforesaid. (8.) All the provisions of the principal act relating to summary proceedings in salvage cases, and to the prevention of unnecessary appeals in such cases, shall, except so far as the same are altered by this act, extend and apply to all such proceedings, whether under the principal act, or this act, or both of such acts. 50. [Receiver may appoint a valuer in salvage cases.] Whenever any salvage question arises, the receiver of wreck for the district may, upon application from either of the parties, appoint a valuer to value the property in respect of which the salvage claim is made, and shall, when the valuation has been returned to him, give a copy of the valuation to both parties; and any copy of such valuation, purporting to be signed by the valuer, and to be attested by the receiver, shall be received in evidence in any subsequent proceeding; and there shall be paid in respect of such valuation, by the party applying for the same, such fee as the Board of Trade may direct. 26 & 27 Vic. c. 96. An Act to amend the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act (1851), and the Petty Sessions Clerks (Ireland) Act (1858). Whereas doubts have been entertained whether complaints and proceedings in reference to the matters hereinafter specified, are subject to the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and the Petty Sessions Clerks (Ireland) Act, 1858, and of any act for the amendment of them, or either of them, and it is expedient to ensure uniformity of practice at Petty Sessions in relation to such complaints and proceedings: be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. [Provisions of recited acts to apply to complaints or proceedings, under 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 68, and 6 & 7, W. 4, c. 38, in cases specified] From and after the passing of this act, the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and of the Petty Sessions Clerks (Ireland) Act, 1858, (anything therein to the contrary notwithstanding,) shall apply to all complaints or proceedings under the act of the third and fourth of William the Fourth, chapter sixty-eight, and the act of the sixth and seventh of William the Fourth, chapter thirty-eight, and every matter or thing connected therewith, relating to publicans keeping their houses of business open within prohibited hours, or to persons within such hours tippling or gaming therein, or refusing to quit the same, or resisting the entry of parties by law authorized to enter therein, or to publicans allowing illegal assemblies or societies on their premises, or hanging out flags or emblems therefrom, or to persons found drunk in any public place or thoroughfare. 2. [Short Title.] This Act may be cited as "The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863." 26 & 27 Vic. c. 114. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Fisheries in Ireland. Whereas it is expedient to make further provisions for carrying into effect the Law relating to the Salmon Fisheries in Ireland: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and b Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1.-PRELIMINARY. [Short Title.] This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act, 1863." 2.-[Application of Act.] This act shall not apply to England or Scotland. 3.-REGULATIONS AS TO FIXED ENGINES. [Prohibition of bag nets in certain places.] After the passing of this act, no bag net shall be placed or allowed to continue in any river or the estuary of any river, as such river or estuary has been defined by the Commissioners of Fisheries, or shall be defined by the commis sioners under this act, or within a distance of less than three statute miles from the mouth of any river as defined as aforesaid. Any bag net placed or continued in contravention of this section, shall be deemed to be a common nuisance, and may be taken possession of or destroyed; and any bag net so placed or continued, and any salmon taken by such bag net, shall be forfeited, and, in addition thereto, the owner of a bag net placed or continued in contravention of this section shall, for each day of so placing or allowing the same to be continued, incur a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding twenty pounds. But no person shall incur any penalty under this section in respect of any bag net, if he removes the same within fourteen days after the passing of this act: provided always, that no bag net now legally existing shall be liable to be abated or removed, or be deemed illegal under this act, by reason of its being within three miles of the mouth of a river in the whole of which, including all tributary rivers and lakes upon its course, the proprietor of such bag net has the exclusive right of catching salmon. 4. [Penalty on new fixed nets.] No fixed net that was not legally erected for catching salmon or trout during the open season of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, shall be placed or used for catching salmon or trout in any inland or tidal waters. Any net placed or used in contravention of this section shall be deemed to be a common nuisance, and may be taken possession of or destroyed; and any net so placed or used, and any salmon taken by such net, shall be forfeited; and, in addition thereto, the owner of a net placed or used in contravention of this section shall, for each day of so placing or using the same, incur a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding twenty pounds. 5. [Commissioners to inquire as to fixed nets.] Subject to such appeal as is herein-after mentioned, the special commissioners appointed under this act, herein-after referred to as the commissioners, shall abate and remove all fixed nets erected or used for catching salmon or trout in Ireland that are, in their judgment, injurious to navigation, and shall inquire into the legality of, and if satisfied of their illegality, remove all such other fixed nets erected or used as aforesaid as are in contravention of any act of Parliament or law in force in Ireland. 6. [Certificate as to certain fixed nets.] Where any fixed net other than a bag net prohibited by this act, is in use at the time of the passing of this act, and any person claims to have erected the same in pursuance of the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and six, the commissioners may, on proof being given to their satisfaction, that such fixed net has been erected in pursuance of the said provisions, certify to that effect, stating in the certificate the situation, size, and description of the net, and the person who has the right to erect the same, in pursuance of such last-mentioned provisions. A certificate given in pursuance of this notice shall be deemed to be an order of the commissioners, and to be subject to appeal as such. If unappealed from, or as confirmed or amended on appeal, such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the person therein named is the person specified in the said act as entitled to exercise the right therein given, but it shall not render any net legal that would be otherwise illegal by reason of its being injurious to navigation, a common nuisance to the public right of fishing, or otherwise in violation of common law or any act of parliament. 7. [Commissioners to inquire as to fishing weirs.] Subject to such appeal as is herein-after mentioned, the commissioners shall inquire into the legality of all fishing weirs throughout Ireland, and shall remove such as are in contravention of any act of parliament or law in force in Ireland, with this qualification, that where a fishing weir is illegal only by reason of its not having a free gap, as required by law, this section shall not empower the commissioners to remove such fishing weir, if an undertaking be entered into to the satisfaction of the commissioners, by the owner or other person interested in such weir, to make a legal free gap therein within a time to be prescribed by the commissioners, and a free gap is made accordingly. 8. [Persons unlawfully erecting or keeping up any fishing weir upon a river after notice to forfeit £50, with costs of suit.] If any person has unlawfully erected or kept up, or shall unlawfully erect or keep up, any fishing weir, upon any river and a notice shall be served in writing upon the proprietor or occupier of such weir, or his known agent, by the owner or occupier of any grounds on the banks of such river, on which such weir has been, or shall be erected, requiring him to prostrate or open the same within the space of thirty days from the service of such notice, if such proprietor or occupier of such weir shall not, within that time, abate or prostrate the same, he shall forfeit a sum of fifty pounds, together with costs of suit, to be recovered by action of debt, in any of Her Majesty's courts of record, one moiety thereof to be to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to the use of the conservators of the district, in which such weir has been or shall be unlawfully erected or kept up; and the said court shall adjudge such weir to be abated at the expense of the defendant in such action: provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall restrict the powers by this act given to the commissioners. 9. [As to construction of free gaps.] In every fishing weir there shall be a free gap or opening in accordance with the regulations following, under the powers of this act (that is to say,) (1.) The free gap shall be situate in the deepest part of the stream: (2.) The sides of the gap shall be in a line with and parallel to the direction of the stream at the weir: (3.) The bottom of the gap shall be level with the natural bed of the stream above and below the gap: (4.) The width of the gap in its narrowest part shall be not less than one tenth part of the width of the stream: provided always, that such gap shall not be required to be wider than fifty feet, and shall not, in any case, be narrower than three feet: and provided also, that no existing gap in any weir shall be reduced in width, or a gap of less width substituted in lieu thereof, or any alteration made therein, so as to reduce the flow of water through such gap: Provided always, that no person shall be entitled to any compensation by reason of the enforcing of any free gap in any weir, anything to the contrary in any act notwithstanding. 10. [As to construction of boxes and cribs in fishing weirs and fishing milldams.] The following rules shall be observed in relation to the construction of boxes and cribs in fishing weirs and fishing milldams; (that is to say,) (1.) The upper surface of the sill shall be level with the bed of the river: (2.) The bars or inscales of the heck or upstream side of the box or crib shall not be nearer each other than two inches, and shall be capable of being removed, and shall be placed perpendicularly: the boxes, cribs, or |