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where Ihe payment, of the fee permits tlic fisherman to use liis 

 implement of capture in any Government Avaters, but tlie mini- 

 mum size of the mesh of the nets is restricted to l^^ inches. 

 Tliere is this ol)jection that there arc no overlookers as there ar(3 

 when contractors lease the waters ; (3) Government may 

 permit any one to flsh, under certain conditions, kee})ing 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 thej'^ are almost invariably carried on in a waste- 

 ful and destructive manner. 



