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private owners, and in part held under lease from the 

 Board of Trade. The latter portion remains uncultivated, 

 to some extent apparently because of its nearness to the 

 ground belonging to the Emsworth dredgermen, but 

 mainly, no doubt, because the Company have not hitherto 

 required so large an area as they possess. 



I am, &c., 

 (Signed) W. E. HALL. 



The Assistant Secretary, 

 Harbour Department, Board of Trade. 



LYNN DEEPS FISHERY ORDER. 



20, Onslaw Gardens, 28 th December, 1876. 



Sir, I have the honour to inform you that, in accord- 

 ance with your instructions, dated the ist November, I 

 visited Lynn on the ^th and 5th instant, in order to inspect 

 the oyster and mussel fishery over which the Corporation 

 of that town possess regulatory powers under " The Lynn 

 Deeps Fishery Order, 1872." 



I was unable to examine the oyster beds, the weather 

 being such as to render dredging impossible ; and the 

 tides were not low enough to expose the more productive 

 of the mussel scalps. I would prefer to have been able to 

 inspect the oyster beds, but I have not since had any 

 time at my my command during weather in which dredg- 

 ing could be carried on to any useful purpose on such 

 exposed ground ; and I believe that the information which 

 I have gathered justifies me in forming an opinion regard- 

 ing them with some confidence. 



