APPENDIX. 181 



A BILL 



TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE SEVERAL ACTS RELATING TO 

 THE IRISH FISHERIES. 



[As the Bill, (the subject matter of the first article 

 of this book) entitled, " A Bill to consolidate and 

 amend the several Acts relating to the Irish Fish- 

 eries," was a work of no ordinary magnitude and 

 labour, both to Mr. Conolly, the Member of Parlia- 

 ment who prepared and introduced it, and to myself, 

 who assisted him ; I think it desirable to give here, 

 the preamble and heads of sections from the Bill 

 itself, in the form in which it stood for second reading 

 in the House of Commons, on the 21st April 1852.] 



Whereas the Fisheries of Ireland are much ex- 

 hausted and decayed, and the laws relating thereto 

 have become complicated, and it is expedient to con- 

 soUdate and amend the said laws, and provide a rule 

 for the due governance of the said fisheries by the 



