XX INTRODUCTION. 



TORMORE, BROADFORD, SKYE, 



2.1st October, i872. 



MR. FINLAY MAC!NNES, 16 Waterloo, 

 SIR, 



I have to intimate that your land and grazings have been 

 valued at ^i 153., and you are to be charged at that rate from Whit- 

 sunday last. If you consider yourself aggrieved, you will intimate the 

 same to me by writing within ten days from this date, when I will re- 

 lieve you of your land and let it to another. 



Your obedient servant, 



D. MACDONALD. 

 N.B. I have strict orders to allow no arrears after Whitsunday. 



Mr. Eraser-Mackintosh put it to Maclnnes : " Supposing 

 you were not disposed to pay the increase of rent, the letter 

 informs you that you will be turned out in the middle of a 

 year ! " to which he replied " I had no other expecta- 

 tions. I could not say that I would not pay, or that 

 would have been the result ; and everyone else in the town- 

 ship was in the same position." 



Mr. Fraser-Mackintosh, at a later stage pointed out that 

 there were two illegalities in this notice, one raising the rent 

 between the terms, and the other, in telling these poor 

 people that unless they signified their acquiescence in ten 

 days they would be removed from their holdings. 



BRACADALE EVICTIONS. MACLEOD OF MACLEOD'S 

 PROPERTY. 



Malcolm Mackay, Struan Beg, stated that Dr. MacLean, 

 Talisker, cleared the townships of Fiscavaig and Ardhoil 

 of 12 families. Hugh MacCaskill, succeeded Dr. Mac- 

 Lean, and he evicted 16 families from Aird Bhreac and 

 Heille. " When Dr. MacLean found a crofter's sheep on his 

 farm, and the owner was not prepared to pay half-a-crown 

 on the spot for it, he would have the ears of the sheep cut 



