AND ANGLING SONGS. 399 



The following scale will serve to illustrate my proposal : 



Cost of License No. 1, entitling the party holding it to angle 

 for river-trout, from 15th March to 1st October, on Tweed 

 and all its tributaries, ..... 5 



Cost of License No. 2, entitling party holding it to 

 angle for river-trout during the period above 

 mentioned on Tweed, or streams connected with it, 

 in the neighbourhood of his residence, say within 

 the circle described by a radius of three miles, .026 



Cost of License No. 3, entitling to angle one day in 



the week within the limits above specified, .010 



No. 4, Visitor's License, per week, . . .010 



Suggestions as to a License for Salmon-fishing. 

 License for salmon-fishing with rod and line, entitling 

 a party duly qualified, as a proprietor or tenant 

 of salmon- fishings, or as the holder of a permis- 

 sion from a proprietor or tenant of salmon-fish- 

 ings, to angle for salmon, . . . .100 



This License, over and above, to entitle the person holding it, 

 and possessing the necessary qualification, to capture with rod 

 and line, as vermin, during October and November, common 

 trout and bull-trout, on or near the spawning-grounds of the salar, 

 without any restriction as to bait. 



I have used the word ' entitling' in connexion with this Trout- 

 ing License as descriptive of the powers which, in order to secure 

 for its imposition a favourable reception, it would require to con- 

 vey. As a mere temporary qualification, the trouting license, I 

 fear, would meet with opposition. As embodying, on the other 

 hand, a certain amount of claim, as insuring to the holder more 

 than the equivalent of its cost, it must naturally draw favour and 

 gain common support. 



I am aware that some of the proprietors of trout-fishings con- 



