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The water-keepers of the lessees are ordered to give no 

 hindrance to gentlemen having the printed permission of 

 Miss Sheil to angle for salmon or for trout, but all other 

 persons are prohibited, and the river is strictly preserved. 

 No gentleman is allowed to angle below the bridge, or near to 

 the salmon boxes ; but there are many excellent salmon throws 

 between the town and Belleck, a distance of three Irish miles, 

 and there are paths along the river side, so that approach to the 

 water along the line is easy of access. All the salmon taken by 

 angling are to be carefully preserved, and not to be injured by 

 gafFs, but delivered to the water-keepers, and sent to the fish 

 house. There is a very good hotel in Ballyshannon, kept by 

 Mr. Cockburn. The mail coach from Dublin arrives every day ; 

 and there is no place in the three kingdoms where a person 

 fond of angling can have more opportunities of amusement, at a 

 moderate expense. It is the interest of the proprietors of the 

 fishery, as well as their disposition, to cultivate the goodwill 

 and good wishes of the gentlemen anglers who visit Bally- 

 shannon, and also to maintain that station in the regard of the 

 people which the late Dr. Sheil enjoyed, and which his family 

 trust they have not forfeited. 



The salmon and eel fisheries of the river Bann, from the 

 high and deep sea to Lough Neagh, also those of Lough 

 Foyle, from the high and deep sea to the town of LifTord, 

 together with the whole of the ground and soil of the same, are 

 the property of the Honourable the Irish Society of London, 

 having been granted to them by charter of King James I., 

 in the 1 1th year of his reign, (1613.) These are by far the most 

 valuable of the fisheries in the province of Ulster. A direct 

 attempt has been made of late years by the Rev. J. Molesworth 

 Staples, the Rector of Moville, to interfere with the rights of 

 the Irish Society over this part of their property, and they 

 have been obliged to resort to a court of law for protection 

 from these unjust aggressions. The reader will find in this 

 pamphlet an account of the injury done to the Society's interests, 

 and which, if suffered to remain unredressed, must prove detri- 

 mental to the salmon fisheries to an incalculable extent. The 



