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annual Value of Two hundred Pounds, shall be entitled to Two 

 Votes ; and every Commissioner possessed of or representing 

 Salmon Fishings of the annual Value of Four hundred Pounds 

 or upwards, or who shall pay towards the Funds by this Act 

 authorized to be raised a Sum equal to the Assessment leviable 

 for the Time on Salmon Fishings of the annual Value of Four 

 hundred Pounds, shall be entitled to three Votes ; and no Com- 

 missioner shall be entitled to more than Three Votes; and 

 when a Proxy is given for General Meetings it shall be for all 

 the Votes to which the Commissioner giving it is entitled, and 

 when for District Meetings for all the Votes to which the Com- 

 missioner giving it is entitled, in respect of Fisheries within the 

 District for which it is used. 



XXIII. At all Meetings of the Commissioners they shall 

 defray then- own Expenses, except such as may be incurred for 

 the Use of the Eoom in which the Meeting is held, and for 

 Books, Stationery, and Fire. 



XXIV. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners at any 

 General Meeting to appoint a Clerk and Treasurer and Super- 

 intendent of Water Bailiffs, and such other Officers as they shall 

 think proper, with such Salaries as they shall think fit, and 

 from Time to Time to remove and again to replace any Clerk, 

 Treasurer, Superintendent, or other Officer ; and in case of the 

 Clerk, Treasurer, Superintendent, or other Officer dying or being 

 removed from or quitting the Service of the Commissioners, 

 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, at a Special General 

 Meeting called for the Purpose by the Clerk or any Three of 

 the Commissioners, of which Meeting Notice shall be given 

 as herein-before provided, to appoint some other fit and proper 

 Person to be Clerk, Treasurer, Superintendent, or Officer in his 

 Place. 



XXV. The Clerk shall attend the General and Special Meet- 

 ings of the Commissioners, and shall, in proper Books to be 

 provided for that purpose, enter and keep a true and perfect 

 Account of all the Money received by virtue of this Act, 

 and of the Application of the same, and Minutes of all the Acts 

 and Proceedings under this Act of the Commissioners and of 

 every Committee appointed by them ; and every such Minute 

 shall be signed by the Chairman of the Meeting at which the 

 Proceeding took place, and such Minute so signed shall be re- 

 ceived as Evidence in all Courts, and before all Judges, Justices, 

 and others, without Proof of such Meeting having been duly con- 

 vened or held, or of the Persons attending such Meeting having 

 been or being Commissioners or Members of Committees respec- 

 tively, or of the Signature of the Chairman, or of the fact of his 

 having been Chairman, all which Matters shall be presumed 



