APPENDIX, 



Statement of the efforts made between 1855 and 

 1868 to obtain from Parliament a general and 

 effectual Law against the Pollution of Streams. 



In 1855, when the " Nmsa?ices Removal Bill" of Sir 1355. 

 Benjamin Hall (the late Lord Llanover) was passing Attempt to 



1 ^ r-i ' T»r atti titttt , S^^ ClaUSe 24 



through Committee, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Henley, and of Nuisances 



Lord Robert Grosvenor attempted, but unsuccessfully, to I^^^oy^l Bill 



get Clause 24 (which imposed a penalty of £ 200 for the 



discharge of gas refuse into the rivers) extended, so as to 



include* all manufacturing refuse of a foul, and poisonous 



nature. 



Early in 1861 a number of noblemen and gentlemen 1861. 



, , , , , , „ , Formation of 



associated themselves together under the name oi the the Fisheries 



" Fisheries Preservation Association," for the purpose P^^"eservation 



^ J^ ^ Association, 

 (among other objects they had in view) of obtaining 



an enactment against the " poisoning and polluting of 



rivers." 



In the Session of this year (1861), through the instru- 1861. 

 mentality in a great measure of this Association, the gafmon ° 

 Salmon Fishery Act for England and Wales (24 and 25 Fishery Act. 

 Vic, cap. 109) was obtained, and it contained a clause 

 (Section 5) which at the time it was hoped would prove 

 effectual in preventing the pollution of rivers. 



Experience having shown, however, that the Act (a 1863. 

 most valuable and effective one in other respects) was in- tationtoLord 

 operative as regarded such pollutions, in August, 1863, a Palmerston. 



* Hansard, 3rd Series, vol. 139, pp. 671-672. 



