or char between the 2nd of October and the 1st of February both inclusive. In Scotland, by 9 G. 4, c. 39, no fish of the salmon kind to be taken between September 14 and February 1; penalty for taking or attempting to take salmon during this period not less than £1 nor exceeding £10, together with boat, net, or implements employed. Penalties are imposed by 7 & 8 V. c. 95, from 58. to £10, on persons, without legal right or permission, taking salmon on any stream, lake, firth, or within one mile of low-water mark on any sea-shore. The Scotch acts are amended by 25 & 26 V. c. 97, in relation to the removal of obstructions, and for the prevention of illegal fishing By s. 3, each river and estuary, and the sea coast adjoining, to be divided by commissioners, to form districts. Three commissioners to be appointed by secretary of state for not exceeding three years, and to be paid at the rate of £3 per day each, so as not to exceed £300 a year. Annual close time for every district to continue for 168 days, and weekly close time, except for rod and line, to continue from the hour of six on Saturday night to the hour of six on Monday morning; but these times may be varied at the instance of the district board, s. 7. Penalties limited to £5 or £2 for offences. As to election of district boards, ss. 13, 19. Three or more persons illegally fishing at night a criminal offence. Act does not apply to the Tweed fisheries, s. 34. APPENDIX. SCALE of Commission as proposed and revised in July, 1873, by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society for the remuneration of solicitors for their skill, labour, and responsibility in respect of loans and sales. The Commission is to include all charges for negotiation, but is to be exclusive of all disbursements and of charges for searching and registering in register counties, also of journeys out of England, and any extra work occasioned by changes occurring in the course of the business, such as the death or insolvency of a party to the transaction. It is not to include any business of a contentious character, nor any proceedings in any court, such as an application for a vesting order, or payment of money into court on a Chancery sale. The commission on sale of leaseholds for terms not exceeding originally 100 years, shall be one-fourth less than the scale on sale of freeholds and copyholds. Fractional parts of £100 to be reckoned as £100. Where the same solicitor acts for both mortgagor and mortgagee, he should have the mortgagee's solicitor's allowance, and onefourth of the allowance of the mortgagor's solicitor. Where a loan on mortgage forms part of a sale and purchase transaction, and the same solicitor acts, the solicitor should be entitled to balf the allowance for a mortgage in addition to the allowance for a sale and purchase. Where the same solicitor acts for both vendor and purchaser, he should have the purchaser's solicitor's allowance, and one-fourth of the allowance of the vendor's solicitor, of the aggregate of which, in the absence of a special agreement, the vendor should bear two-fifths and the purchaser three-fifths. Sales in lots to be treated as separate transactions, if lots are sold to separate purchasers. On sales by auction, if a contract is not entered into for the sale of the property, or (if there be more than one lot) for the sale of all the lots, then the vendor's solicitor shall have only one-third of the allowance calculated on the reserved price of the property, or of the several lots unsold. |