196 THE BOARD OF CONSERVATORS 



smaller number of individuals thus interested in 

 netting in this small proportionate part of the river 

 are permitted to entirely stop, not only at one point, 

 but throughout the nettable portion of the river, for 

 three-quarters of each week, all the salmon which in 

 the natural order of things would enrich the greater 

 portion of each river. A most important Act that of 

 1873 enacts that each Board of Conservators may 

 make the by-laws for the regulation and improvement 

 of fisheries within its own limits.* As there may be 

 many of my readers whose knowledge of the Boards of 

 Conservators, and the laws under which they are 

 elected, is limited, the following synopsis of these laws 

 may be useful : 



The Boards of Conservators. 



After "The fishing district " has been settled by the 

 Secretary of State (formerly for the Home Department, 

 then Board of Trade, and now Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries), a Board of Conservators is formed, 

 under the Salmon and Trout Fishing Acts of 1865 and 

 1873, in the following manner : 



A joint committee of three members of each of the 

 County Councils (instead of Quarter Sessions) of the 

 counties comprised in " The fishing district " meet, and 

 settle upon how many members the Board shall consist 

 and the number to be elected by each County Council ; 

 then the County Councils elect their representatives. 

 * See Appendix, Salmon v. Trout. 



