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Mayor’s warrant to water bailiff or special officer to seize vessels so trawling, and carry persons before a magistrate till determined,
not paying proportion of penalty. imprisoned 1 month.
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XIV. 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 Cork, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of the said city of Cork shall issue 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 Cork (oysters only excepted) inside said points called the Cow and Calf, and to carry the said boat or vessel, with her tackle, fails, 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 hereof, 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 said justices of the peace of the said county of Cork contiguous to the said harbour, in order to have the said matters heard and determined, and according to the true intent and meaning hereof; 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 Cork, according to the 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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