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reward, prepare a Bill, either de novo, or else a Bill 

 engrafted on the present Fishery Act, 5th and 6th 

 Victoria. Such a Bill might be then submitted to 

 the Law Officers of the Crown, for their revisal and 

 amendment, and further submitted to the Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries, for their suggestions. Passed 

 through these alembics, your Excellency may confi- 

 dently rely upon a sound and useful measure. The 

 fisheries will be at once revived and restored, and if the 

 expression be permissible, '•' I will give my head upon 

 a block" if the rivers of Ireland do not, within three 

 years, teem with salmon as they did 50 years ago. 



I have the honour to be, my Lord, with the high- 

 est respect, your Lordship's most obedient Servant, 



Robert Worthington. 



Island Bridge Fishery, 

 May 2Sth, 1850. 



Paper published, in the Fourth Annual Report, of 



the Commissioners of Fisheries to Parliament. 

 As the question, what should be the proper close 

 season for salmon is now undergoing investigation, 

 and as this subject as well as that of agricultural 

 improvements, occupies, and deservedly, so much 

 public attention, both tending, as they do, to increase 

 the amount of food, I have no objection to submit 

 my views, and the results of my experience, since 

 opinions the most discordant, have been promulgated 



