TO THE FRESHWATER FISH PROTECTION BILL. Note.-The page and line refer to the Bill (155.) as first printed by the Lords. Page 1. Line 17, after ("bait") insert ("and section sixty-four of the "Salmon Fishery Act, 1865 (which provides a close time "for trout and char)") Line 27, leave out ("section") and insert ("and nineteenth sections") Page 2. Line 2, after ("licences ") insert ("for the day, week, season, 66 or any part thereof ") Line 3, after (" and ") insert (" in the event of the "exercised in any fishery district") power being Line 7, after (" shall") insert (" with respect to such district") Provided as follows: (1.) A licence to fish for salmon shall have effect as a licence to fish for trout and char: (2.) The fee payable for a licence to fish for trout or char exclusively of salmon in any district shall not exceed one third of the maximum amount chargeable for fishing for salmon under the provisions of the 21st section of the Salmon Fishery Act, 1873. Page 3. Line 2, after ("several ") insert (" or private") Line 34, after ("direct") insert (8.) The provisions of the Salmon Fishery Acts, 1861 to 1876, as to legal proceedings, offences, and penalties under those Acts, shall apply to legal proceedings, offences, and penalties under this section. Repeal of c. 33. as to At the end of the Bill add clause (A). (A.) So much of the Act of Parliament made and passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter thirtyfishing in the three, intituled "An Act for the better preservation of fish and Severn and Verniew in June and July. 66 regulating the fisheries in the River Severn and Verniew,” as prohibits any person or persons in the months of June or July laying, drawing, making use of, or fishing within the said rivers or either of them with any net the meshes whereof shall be under two inches and a half square by the standard, and not extended, or ten inches round, allowing to each mesh four knots, is hereby A BILL ΤΟ Confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of A.D. 1878. THEREAS under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, the Board of Trade have made the several Provisional Orders set out in the schedule to this Act annexed: 5 And whereas a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders 10 made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the said Act, and set out in the schedule to this Act, be confirmed by Act of Parliament: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 15 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Gas and Water Orders Con- Short title. firmation Act, 1878." 2. The several Orders set out in the schedule to this Act shall Confirmation of Orders in 20 be and the same are hereby confirmed; and all the provisions schedule. A.D. 1878. thereof, in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, have full validity and force. The SCHEDULE of ORDERS. 1. GAS ORDERS. 1. BOGNOR GAS.-Order empowering the Bognor Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, to raise Additional Capital. 2. DYSYNNI GAS.-Order empowering the Dysynni Gas Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks and to make and supply Gas in the parish of Towyn in the county of Merioneth. 5 10 3. ELLAND GAS.-Order empowering the Elland-cum-Greetland Gas Com- 5. GODALMING GAS.-Order empowering the Godalming Gas and Coke 6. GREENHITHE GAS.-Order empowering the Greenhithe Gas Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks, and to make and supply Gas in the parish of Swanscombe in the county of Kent. 20 7. SANDOWN GAS.-Order empowering the Sandown Gas and Coke Com- 8. SHANKLIN GAS.-Order empowering the Shanklin Gas Company, 9. WESTON-SUPER-MARE GAS.-Order empowering the Weston-super- 2. WATER ORDERS. 10. ALCESTER WATER.-Order empowering the Alcester Waterworks Company, Limited, to construct Waterworks and to supply Water in the parishes of Alcester and Arrow, and hamlet of Oversley, all in the county of Warwick. 35 11. CUCKFIELD, HAYWARDS-HEATH, AND LINDFIELD WATER.-Order A.D. 1878. 12. FOWEY WATER.-Order empowering the Fowey Waterworks Company, 13. FRITH HILL, GODALMING, AND FARNCOMBE WATER.-Order em- 14. HOLYWELL AND DISTRICT WATER.-Order empowering the Holywell 17. WOKINGHAM WATER.-Order empowering the Wokingham District 3. GAS AND WATER ORDERS. 18. HOYLAKE AND WEST KIRBY GAS AND WATER.-Order empowering 19. NEW TREDEGAR GAS AND WATER.-Order empowering the New 20. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE GAS AND WATER.-Order empowering the |