Observations on the Public Right of Fishing by Angle or Nets in Public Navigable Rivers in General, and the River Thames in Particular e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The first appeared to me a certain evil, and was frequently attended with numberless vex atious proceedings on the part of the persons claiming an exclusive privilege against those who caught a few fish merely for amusement, and whose legal right. To do so was equal to their own; while the supposed privileged per sons were by illegal means destroying fish by cart and waggon loads earthly good whatever; and thus, not. Only doinga great public injury, but-depriving a large. Portion of societyof a pleasing and legal amusement.