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where the payment of the fee permits the fisherman to use his 

 implement of capture in any Government waters, but the mini- 

 mum size of the mesh of the nets is restricted to 1J- inches. 

 There is this objection that there are no overlookers as there are 

 when contractors lease the waters ; (3) Government may 

 permit any one to fish, under certain conditions, keeping a staff 

 of water 'bailiffs at the public expense to see their orders 

 carried out — a plan which probably would fail in practice, 

 and certainly be very expensive. But the modes in which 

 free fisheries are worked deserve the most attentive con- 

 sideration, as they are almost invariably carried on in a waste- 

 ful and destructive manner. 



