THE SALMON 



or partly within the county, and the Board of Trade 

 may include in any district so formed any river or 

 rivers or parts thereof, although not situated in the 

 county on behalf of which the application is made. 

 The limits of a river are to be denned and a fishery 

 district formed by a certificate from the Board of 

 Trade, and such district may be altered by the Board 

 of Trade upon the application of the conservators. 

 Where a fishery district lies wholly within any one 

 county, the county council elect certain of their 

 number to act as members of the Board of Conserva- 

 tors for that district : in addition to these there are 

 two classes of conservators, (i) ex officio, (2) represen- 

 tative. 



1. Everyone comes within the first class who is the 

 owner or occupier of a fishery in the district which is 

 assessed to the poor rate on a gross estimated rental 

 of 30/. per annum, or is the owner of lands within the 

 district of an annual value of not less than 100/. 

 having a frontage of not less than a mile to any 

 salmon river, and has the right to fish there, and has 

 paid license duty for fishing for salmon within the 

 district in the preceding year. 



2. The second class are the elected representa- 

 tives of fishermen duly licensed to fish for salmon 

 (otherwise than with rod and line) during the last 



