COMMISSION. 



Whereas it has been represented to me that a destructive 

 disease has extensively prevailed during the years 1877, 1878, and 

 1879 among the salmon of the Tweed, Eden, and other rivers in 

 England and Scotland. And whereas it is expedient that in" 

 quiries should be made into the causes of such disease, and the 

 steps which it may be expedient to take to prevent its propagation 

 in the rivers in which it has already appeared, and its extension 

 to other rivers. 



I, the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, one of Her 

 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do hereby nominate and 

 appoint Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Esquire, Spencer Walpole, 

 Esquire, and Archibald Young, Esquire, to be Commissioners to 

 make such inquiries as are aforesaid, and to report fully to me 

 the result thereof. 



(Signed) Richard Assheton Cross. 



Whitehall, 23rd August 1879. 



P 712. Wt. 13601. a 2 



