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an inspector of salmon fisheries for Scotland, who is to 

 work under the Board and report to them. 



Trout and other freshwater fish must not be taken in 

 Scottish waters by nets or several other specified means 

 (practically, may be taken only by angling) by any one 

 not having the right of fishery or licensed by the person 

 having it. 1 



Law of Ireland as to Freshwater Fisheries. 



Ireland, again, has a separate legislative history, be- 

 ginning, as far as modern practical purposes are concerned, 

 in the year 1842, when a consolidating Act was passed, 2 

 and a great number of old Irish statutes as to salmon 

 and other fisheries were repealed. This Act appears to 

 have been to some extent the model for the English 

 Act of 1 86 1. Its provisions are very full and elaborate. 

 In i848, 3 commissioners and conservators were established 

 and the system of licences introduced ; the powers and 

 proceedings of these officers were further defined in 1850.* 

 Fresh regulations were introduced (partly, in turn, adopted 

 from the English Act of 1861) by the Salmon Fishery 

 (Ireland) Act, i863. 5 In I86Q 6 the duties of the former 

 Special Commissioners were transferred to inspectors, who 

 now have 'the power (among other things) of making 

 by-laws, varying local close times, and issuing certificates 

 and licences. They are styled the Inspectors of Irish 

 Fisheries, are three in number, and are appointed by the 

 Lord Lieutenant. 7 



1 8 & 9 Viet. c. 26, 23 & 24 Viet. c. 45. 2 5 & 6 Viet. c. 106. 

 3 ii & 12 Viet. c. 92. 4 13 & 14 Viet. c. 88. 



6 26 & 27 Viet. c. 1 14. 8 32 Viet. c. 9, 32 & 33 Viet. c. 92. 



7 An analysis of the Irish Statutes on the same scale as that above 

 given of the English ones would be wholly beyond my means and 



