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In either case after the appointment, the board of conservators 

 will be a body corporate, and have the entire control of the 

 salmon-fisheries within their district. The Act also provides 

 for the issuing of a special commission to inquire into the 

 titles and rights of all "fixed engines" used in the capture of 

 salmon throughout England and Wales. These devices have 

 since the late improvement in our fisheries very much in- 

 creased in number ; but now such only may hereafter be em- 

 ployed as are proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners 

 to have been lawfully used in either of the years 1857, 1858, 

 1859, 1860, or 1861. There are also other useful and neces- 

 sary provisions in the Act, affording protection to trout in the 

 months of November, December, and January, when they 

 spawn, fixing a minimum penalty for a second offence ; re- 

 quiring all salmon intended to be exported between the 3d 

 September and 2d February to be entered with the proper 

 officer of customs ; and in other minor but important particu- 

 lars amending the Act of 1861, with which the Act of 1865 is 

 to be understood as incorporated. The associations on the 

 Severn, the Usk, and the Yorkshire rivers have already taken 

 up the Act, and intend applying, through the court of quarter- 

 sessions at their next October sessions, for the formation of 

 fishery districts, and the appointment of boards of conserva- 

 tors. It is anticipated that in the lower part of the Severn 

 600, on the Wye 400, and on the Usk 300, will be then 

 derived from licences, and from the first year's revenue of 

 these respective boards ; and it is to be hoped that all neces- 

 sary preliminaries will be adjusted in time to permit the 

 various boards of conservators to enter upon their duties with 

 the commencement of the next open season. 



As a guide to the productiveness in salmon of the different 

 divisions of the three kingdoms, the following table may be 

 taken. It was furnished by Messrs. Wm. Forbes Stuart and 

 < '. ).(>!' HU Lower Thames Street, London, and shows the quan- 



