358 A Pica for River Fisfu i I 'haft. xxv. 



49. These, and other things necessary for the protection and 

 improvement of the fisheries, cannot be done without law ; a rough 

 sketch of a draft* Act is therefore enclosed in Appendix F. It 

 need hardly be mentioned that it would be impossible for such a 

 draft to be made complete and legally accurate by one who has not 

 at command for reference the already existing Indian enactments 

 on matters which must be provided for, matters such as jurisdiction, 

 commutation of fines, collection of taxes and rents, together with 



provision against abuses therein. All that 

 !,. slilmoirV'.'-iHTiVs has been aimed at, therefore, has been to aid 

 in Great Britain &c, those whose proper duty it may become to 



by Ihomas Baker, ' ' . 



Esq.,B.L.,&o. Lon- draw up a law on the subject by a sketch 



don : Horace Cox, .... „ , . .. , 



"Law Times "Office indicative of such requirements as strike the 



I O.WeUington Street, writer and might not strike the reader. The 



btrand. ° 



little work, marginally noted, may also be 

 found useful as showing what has been done in the matter in 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



50. Apart from the question of legal accuracy and complete- 

 ness, it will be remembered that the subject of this report is the 

 fisheries of the South Canara district alone, and thai consequently 

 it is beyond my province as well as my opportunities to make 

 proposals about any other; though the proposals contained in this 

 report will probably be found to have applicability to other weal 

 mast rivers also, and other seas and estuaries. It is obvious that 

 in the Madias Presidency alone, Eurthei provision will be required 

 for differing circumstances on the east coast and in the interior. 

 In reference to these, the opinions of the several Collectors, and of 

 Dr. Day, who has visited their fisheries, are doubtless OTrore the 

 Board In connection with the innumerable reservoirs therein, it 

 may be allowable, however, to throw out, in passing, the suggestion, 

 that instead of constructing them as our engineers do with the 

 sluice so placed as annually to drain out the very last drop of 

 water, it might be wiser in all fresh constructions, and when 

 possible in repairs, to follow the example of Eyder, who so placed 

 the sluice that after all 1 lie water a\ ailaUe for ill iuatioiial pur- 

 poses had been drawn off, there was still left in the reservoir some 



* Some of these proposals have been slightlj modified in ■ letter submitted to 

 the Madras Government in November, is": 1 , which is nol public property, so I am 

 nol at liberty to quote ii 



