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Commissioner entrusted with this duty made most searching 
inquiries along the sea coasts, and also along river banks, to 
ascertain whether the proprietors who claim salmon fisheries 
there could show a legal title to them. Much irritation was 
caused by these proceedings; and it seems not unreasonable 
that, in respect of the revenue obtained by the Crown from 
Scotch Salmon Fisheries, the Executive Government should 
not grudge the expense of affording the means of additional 
protection.* 
This is a practical question which may well be pressed on the 
attention of Her Majesty’s Government. The Association recently 
formed for the improvement of Scotch Salmon Fisheries would 
render signal service to the country, by appointing a deputation 
to wait upon the Home Secretary, to urge that steps should be 
taken for remedying evils, officially made known to Government 
twelve years ago, and now attempted to be more fully explained 
in the foregoing pages. 
* Tt is said, that the amount of Salmon Fishery Rents now drawn by the 
Crown in Scotland amounts to about £7000; and that they are annually 
increasing. 
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