PREFACE. XI 



day — at the same time I may observe, that it 

 has been my chief effort throughout, to condense 

 the subjects treated of, and throw as large a 

 mass of practical matter as possible, into the 

 smallest space. 



With these few remarks I now consign these 

 pages, in an authentic shape, to the public. 

 Time is the great truth-teller, and I have little 

 doubt, that use and experience will prove, that 

 the system for the management of the fisheries 

 here put forward — and detailed in more techni- 

 cal and systematic form in the Bill printed by 

 order of the House of Commons in June 1851 — 

 is the true one. 



Island Bridge^ Dublin^ 

 March 2Uh, 1856. 



