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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, finding that the laying of lint in lochs and burns is not only very hurtful to all fishes bred within the same, and bestial that drinks thereof, but also the whole waters of the said lochs and burns thereby being infected are made altogether unprofitable for the use of man and very harmful to all the people dwelling thereabouts; therefore, statute and ordain that no person nor persons in time coming lay in lochs and running burns any green lint under the pain of 40s on every occasion for each time they shall contravene, and also confiscation of the lint, to be applied to the poor of the parish within the which the said lochs and burns lie, and by the tenor hereof give power to the session of the kirk of each parish to try, examine and put this present act to execution, and to uplift the fines and to confiscate and dispose upon the said lint to the well of the poor of the parish as said is; and ordain letters of publication to pass hereupon in the appropriate form.