1002 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



subject of 1866 on the other, for the sake of a new enact- 

 ment to supersede that of 1868. 



The company in question obtained by their order 

 200 acres in Langston Harbour and round Hayling Island, 

 and deposited plans with the Board of Trade. They 

 acquired a several fishery, which was to be marked by 

 poles and beacons at intervals not exceeding 100 yards. 

 Obliterated marks were to be replaced at once, and notice 

 was to be given at the first establishment of the fishery to 

 fishermen and others by placards in the harbour and at 

 Hayling Bridge. The grant was for sixty years only, and 

 no works other than the marks and beacons mentioned 

 were to be erected on it without the express sanction of 

 the Board of Trade. 



1875 was a year of legislative activity, and the Sea 

 Fisheries Act of 1868 was materially amended by a short 

 express Act (38 Viet., c. 15). Any oyster company, estab- 

 lished by any local Act passed since 1863, and subject to 

 the control of the Inspectors of Fisheries under the Salmon 

 Fishery Act of 1861, was thenceforth deemed to have ob- 

 tained an order under the Third Part of the Sea Fisheries 

 Act of 1868. It became subject to the Board of Trade, as 

 if it had been originally established by the Act of 1868, 

 and the powers over such a company vested in the Salmon 

 Inspectors ceased ; whilst any provisions in the local Act 

 at variance with the control 'of the Board of Trade given 

 by the Sea Fisheries Act were repealed. . . . The 

 second section enables an Inspector of the Board of Trade 

 to examine upon oath when he considers the desirability of 

 the cesser of a several oyster fishery, in the same way that 

 he may (under section 32 of 31 and 32 Viet., c. 45) when 

 he holds an inquiry as to the desirability of establishing a 

 grant 



