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Section IV Suspicious Persons, about Boats, &c. not departing on Warning;

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Penalty.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any idle or suspitious person or persons shall in the night assemble and flock togeather about the Boats Nets or Sellars belonging to any Pilchard Craft upon any of the Coasts of Cornwall or Devon having no busines there to do and being warned by the Company or Owner of such Boats or Sellars to be gone that then upon complaint made unto any one Justice of the Peace every such person or persons refusing so to do shall pay five shillings to the poore of the Parish where such offence was committed or shall be set in the Stocks for the space of Five houres.