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In the Wye Board, for instance, three are selected 

 from Montgomery, Cardigan, Brecknock, Radnor, 

 Hereford, Monmouth, and Gloucester, and these 

 twenty-one members constitute the Board. 



In addition, there are the ex-officio members, with 

 these qualifications : 



1. Anyone who is the owner or occupier of a fishery 

 or fisheries in the fishing district, assessed to the poor 

 rate on a gross estimated rental of 30 a year, but in 

 no case shall both owner and occupier be entitled to 

 act at the same time. 



2. The owner of lands in a fishery district of an 

 annual value of not less than 100, having a frontage 

 of not less than one mile on one side or half a mile on 

 both sides to any salmon river, having the right to 

 fish, and having paid licence duty during the last pre- 

 ceding fishing season. 



The ex-officio member, before he takes his seat at 

 the Board, must make a declaration as to his qualifica- 

 tion, and anyone wilfully making any false declaration, 

 or acting before having made such declaration, shall 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 



3. Representatives of a public fishery. 



On the Wye Board there are none, and I doubt 

 very much whether there are any in England and 

 Wales. 



NOTE. The ex-officio members are, as a fact, in a 

 majority, but the difficulty is to get them to attend. The 

 elected members nearly always do so, and, consequently, 

 in many cases, being men indifferent to sport, and 



