Justices are also authorized to take, cut in pieces, and destroy, all such articles as before recited and adapted to the taking of fish, as may be found in the possession of OFFENDERS when taken. Persons aggrieved may appeal to the QUARTER SESSIONS, whose judgment shall be final. Although this power is vested in a MAGISTRATE, yet the owner of the water, or fishery, cannot justify such a measure, but can only take them damage feasant, as is particularly expressed in various clauses of different acts of Parliament upon this subject. And by the 4th and 5th William and Mary, it is enacted, That no person (except makers and sellers of nets, owners of a river or fishery, authorized fishermen, and their apprentices) shall keep any net, angle, leap, pike, or other engine for taking of FISH.
The proprietor of any river or fishery, or persons by them authorized, may seize, and keep to his own use, any engine which shall be found in the custody of any person fishing in any river or fishery, without the CONSENT of the OWNER or OCCUPIER. And such owner, occupier, or person, authorized by either, sanctioned by the consent of any JUSTICE, in the day-time, may search the houses, or other places, of any person prohibited to keep the same, who shall be suspected to have such nets, or other engines, in his possession, and the same to seize, and keep to their own use, or cut in pieces and destroy.
By the 5th George Third, c. xiv. s. 1, it is enacted, That if any person shall enter into any PARK or PADDOCK inclosed, or enter into any garden, orchard, or yard, belonging to, or adjoining to, any dwelling-house, wherein shall be any river, pond, moat, or other water, and, by any means whatsoever, (without the consent of the owner,) steal, kill, or destroy, any FISH, bred, kept, or preserved therein, or shall be assisting therein, or shall receive or buy any such fish, knowing them to be such, shall, upon conviction, be transported for seven years. Persons making confession of such offence, and giving evidence against an accomplice, who, in pursuance thereof, shall be convicted, will be entitled to a free pardon.
And by the same Act, s. 3, it is enacted, That if any person shall take, kill, or destroy, or ATTEMPT to take, kill, or destroy, any fish in any river or stream, pool, pond, or other water, (not being in any park or paddock enclosed, or in any garden, orchard, or yard, belonging or adjoining to a dwelling-house, but in any other enclosed ground, being private property,) such person, being thereof convicted by confession, or the oath of one witness before a JUSTICE, shall forfeit five pounds to the owner of the fishery of such river or other water; and in default thereof, shall be committed to the house of correction for a time not exceeding six months. Stealing fish in disguise is made FELONY by the 9th George the First, c. xxii. If any person armed and disguised, shall unlawfully steal, or take away, any FISH, out of any river, or pond, or (whether armed or not) shall unlawfully and maliciously break down the head or mound of any FISH-POND, whereby the fish shall be lost and destroyed, or shall rescue any person in custody for any such offence, or procure any other to join him therein, he shall be guilty of FELONY, without benefit of clergy.
FISTULA
.—Any ulcer having a SINUS or pipe of uncertain termination, the inside of which has acquired callosity, and from whence a matter or bloody sanies flows, or may be pressed out, is called a FISTULA. In its more immediate application, it appertains principally to the injury sustained upon the WITHERS of HORSES; pinched by the saddle, or bruised by the harness; in long and severe chases or journies with one, or long continued weight and friction with the other. A repetition of the first cause generally lays the foundation of great trouble; some expence, and no small share of anxiety: attended to upon the first injury, the inflammation frequently submits (and sometimes speedily) to the mildest class of REPELLENTS: a fomentation of hot vinegar twice or thrice, for ten minutes each time, or a few applications of strong VEGETO MINERAL, incorporated with a proportion of camphorated spirits, will generally prevent any farther cause of disquietude.
There is no one disease, or injury, to which THE HORSE is incident, more perplexing to the VULCANIANS of the old school or VETERINARIANS of the new, than a FISTULA; the formation and process of which is precisely thus. A repetition of the bruise and friction, or painful pressure upon the wither, having excited inflammation, NATURE makes an effort in her own favour; tumefaction or swelling ensues, and suppuration follows of course. From the bony structure of this particular part, a copious secretion of matter is in the first instance never obtained, or, indeed, to be expected. From the great difficulty of securing poultices so as to retain their situation, the progress of maturation is always tardy, and ultimately both partial and imperfect: the aperture, if self-made, is always exceedingly small, from which may be immediately traced with the probe, one or more pipes or SINUSSES in different directions, becoming more and more callous internally, according to the length of their standing, or the injudicious mode in which they may have been treated.
Various modes of treatment, and different directions for a certainty of cure, have been laid down by successive writers upon FARRIERY, and frequently with little success. Theory, it must be admitted, is one thing; the execution in PRACTICE is another. The VOLUME of EXPERIENCE opens to the mind of rumination, and professional emulation, a new page every day; that page now demonstrates the fact, that the most inveterate and long-standing FISTULA is to be firmly and infallibly cured, and the parts perfectly restored, by a mode easy in execution, and invariable in effect. Let a silver probe be passed in every possible direction, that the SINUSSES may be precisely ascertained; this done, let the probe be properly armed with lint, then plentifully impregnated with BUTTER of ANTIMONY, and carefully introduced in such state into each distinct sinus, (whichever way they divide or ramify;) when there, give the probe a turn, that every part may be equally affected; artificial inflammation will succeed, the internal CALLOSITY will be destroyed, and slough off in a few days from the sound parts. The vacuum may then be cleansed with equal parts of FRIAR'S BALSAM, and TINCTURE of MYRRH, by a long-necked syringe, once in three or four days; and the WOUND being daily dressed with the precipitate digestive ointment, insinuated with lint rolled round the probe, and when properly inserted, slipt off with the force of the finger and thumb into the wound, and covered with a sticking plaister to keep it firm, incarnation will be gradually promoted, and COMPLETE CURE certainly follow.
FLANK of a HORSE
—is the part lying between the last RIB and the HIND QUARTER, reaching from the part of the LOINS nearest the hip-bone, to the bottom of the belly nearest the STIFLE. If a horse is well ribbed up, his flank not hollow, but circularly prominent, and his BACK SHORT, he is then called a "good barrelled horse," and is very seldom deficient in other respects which constitute attraction.