Meath Hospital Act 1775
MEATH HOSPITAL ACT 1775 | ||
CHAP. XXXI. | ||
An Act for amending and rendering more effectual an act passed in the last session of parliament, entitled, An act for reviving and continuing several temporary statutes, and to prevent the destructive practice of trawling for fish in the bay of Dublin; and for explaining and amending one other act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for explaining and amending an act passed in the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for erecting and establishing infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom. | ||
Trawling between east point of Howth and of Lamb-Bay, proved before a justice of the county or city, | ||
penalty 10l. and the vessel, tackle, and geer, | ||
by distress and sale, | ||
to marine society and prosecutor. | ||
WHEREAS the practice of trawling, as now carried on in the broad of Lamb-Bay, between the east point of the hill of Howth and the east point of the island called Lamb-Bay, tends to injure the fishery thereof and of the bay of Dublin: be it enacted by the King’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, that if any person or persons shall from and after the twenty fifth day of March in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six take or destroy any fish whatsoever in the broad of Lamb-bay between the east point of the hill of Howth and the east point of the island called Lamb-Bay by trawling, such person or persons shall, on due proof made before any one or more justice or justices of the peace of the county or county of the city of Dublin, forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, together with the boat or vessel which shall be employed in such trawl fishing, with all her tackle, fails, and rigging thereunto, belonging, together with such fishing trawls and geer made use of in such trawling; the said sum of ten pounds to be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the person or persons so offending, one moiety thereof to the use of the marine society, and the other moiety to the use of such person or persons as shall inform and prosecute to conviction the person or persons who shall be found guilty of trawling as aforesaid. |