66* CUSTOM-rtOUSE FEES, 



which, though townlefs, are the principal feats of 

 the fifhrru's, and consequently the natives have 

 natural right to be heard on fubjects wherein r 



cdutely concerned. It" this indulgence 

 fhonld be granted, a reprelentativc from Oban 

 the main land, might be appointed ; and alfo fi< 



, and Sky, nominated by the principal 

 proprietor of each refpective ifland. 



This conduct would difcover fuch moderation 

 and liberality of fentiment, as could not fail of con- 

 tributing to the lucceis of your applications to the 

 llature. ?' r, the fubjecl: of the fifheries 



I be found more extenfive and perplexing in th 

 difcufiion, than you at prefent forelee, which renders 

 the affiftancc of thelc men efTentially neceifary. 

 The impediments now exifting, and the mod eli- 

 ,<le mode of granting public aid, being ftated or 

 fettled, other objects will appear to your view, 

 branching out from one another in a feeming endlefs 

 chain of regulations, which mud be adapted to the 



ious feaibns and modes of each refpedtivc fifh 

 Manyofthefe being new to Scotfmen, it will be 

 nccefiary to a; re one or two feafons in ex- 



pfrimcnts, the reiult of which will enable the con- 

 ation to proceed on fure ground in the framing a 

 practicable fyftem of fifhcry laws, whereby their 

 country will gradually rife from iis ruins, and again 

 become refpectablc in Europe. 



Extraflf from a PC lit ion and Memorial to the Right Honour alb tit 

 JL>or> 1 fajtfty's '7 am the C 



Cor Royal Korougbs of Scoti. "ember 



1783; ?> nnflf certain O flomr t 



.1 Report of tkc Board of Cujioms at Edinburgh and tlxit 

 .lor, in June 178:. 



" IX the port of Lcith," fays theMemorial, < which, with a fevr 

 exception?, is the moft moderate in Scotland, tin: fe-t.s upon coals 

 within the firth are now triple of the hoard's regulations in 1730, 

 There arc at that port alfo, befides other variations, about 15 or 

 20 additional high foes eflabliflicd for clerk?, that were not known 



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