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Mayer to grant Warrant to seize,
and on conviction and non-payment, imprisoned, not exceeding 1 month.
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LXVI. And for the more effectual bringing to justice such person or persons as shall be guilty of the said offence of trawling in the said harbour of Waterford: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of the said city of Waterford shall from time to time as occasion shall require, a warrant directed to the water-bailiff of the said city, or his deputy or deputies, or to any other special officer or officers by him to be appointed for that purpose, requiring him or them to seize, arrest, and attach, and take into his or their custody any boat or vessel that he or they, or any of them, shall find trawling for fish in the said harbour of Waterford (oysters only excepted) inside said Hook-Tower, and to carry the said boat or vessel, with her tackle, sails, and rigging, together with her fishing-trawls and geer, to some convenient place within the said harbour, there to be detained until the cause of seizure shall be determined pursuant to the meaning thereof, and to carry the several persons that shall be found trawling in such boat or vessel, before the said mayor of the said city, or any one or more of the justices of the peace of the county of the said city, or any one or more of the justices of the peace of the said county of Waterford, contiguous to the said harbour, in order to have the said matters heard and determined, and according to the true intent and meaning thereof; and that the said mayor, or any of the said justices shall have power, on the conviction of the parties for such trawling, to commit the person not paying his proportion of the said penalty, to his Majesty’s gaol for the county of the said city, or for the said county of Waterford, according to their respective jurisdictions of the said mayor, or of such justices, for the payment of such penalty; such imprisonment not to exceed one month.
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