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appointment of Government officers to visit the rivers, to see that the laws M ILNE HOME 



for keeping the rivers free from pollution are carried out, and also that 



the weirs or dam dykes put up by millers have sufficient gaps or slaps in 

 them through which the fish can freely ascend and descend in the rivers, 

 and that when no such gaps or slaps can be made, structural fish passes are 

 fixed on the caulds. 



May I venture to express a hope, that in the Report which you are to make 

 to Her Majesty's Government on this important subject, you will advert to 

 the system of protection for Salmon which exists in Canada, the United 

 States, and also on the Continent, for undoubtedly in these countries there are 

 arrangements very deserving of being adopted in Great Britain. 



I remain, &c. 

 To Messrs. Buckland, Walpole, and Young, David Milne Home. 



Commissioners in the Salmon Disease 

 Inquiry. 



