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regulating Orders. While the fishery is in an unproductive 

 condition, and at the time, therefore, when it requires the 

 closest supervision, and in some cases a considerable 

 expenditure of money, the income derived from it is 

 necessarily small. Some Corporations do not possess the 

 means of supplementing the income afforded by tolls from 

 other sources ; and those who have money which can be 

 used for the purpose may not always be willing to devote 

 it to the protection or development of their fishery. There 

 is always, therefore, much risk that a regulating Order may 

 fail to produce its proper effects for want of adequate 

 pecuniary means. I may perhaps be allowed to suggest 

 that in future cases of applications for such an Order it 

 might be wise, before granting it, to require some guarantee 

 that if the necessary expenditure is not covered by the 

 income of the fishery, it will be met from other resources. 



I have, &c., 

 (Signed) W. E. HALL. 



The Assistant Secretary, 

 Harbour Department, Board of Trade. 



NOTE. The Menai Straits Fishery Order, 1874, was 

 determined by a certificate issued on the zist July, 1876, 

 by the Board of Trade, under the 45th section of " The Sea 

 Fisheries Act, 1868;' and the Salcombe River Fishery 

 Order, 1872, was determined by a similar certificate issued 

 on the ist August, 1876, 



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