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tributary the Bovey gave up their fishing rights to the 

 Society. Since then part of the Bovey has been withdrawn, 

 and the Association right now extends for about nine miles 

 up the Teign, and about two miles up the Bovey. Tickets 

 are issued to the public at ios. 6d. for the season, $s. per 

 month, 2 s. 6d. per week, and I s. per day ; a trout licence of 

 2s. 6d., and a salmon licence of 1 is., is also imposed by 

 the board of conservators. 



The Secretary is the Rev. J. Yarde, of Culver House, 

 Chudleigh, while the Treasurer is Sidney Hacker, Esq., of 

 Newton Abbot. 



THE MARKET DEEPING ANGLING SOCIETY. 



The right of fishery in the river Welland at Market 

 Deeping extends from a point at the end of Mr. Thorpe's 

 mill-stream to Kenulph's Stone, a distance of six miles, 

 and formerly belonged to the Crown as Lord of the Manor 

 of East and West Deeping. It was let until 1872 to a 

 fisherman who netted it at all times and seasons, sparing 

 nothing. Mr. S. B. Sharpe represented the matter to Mr. 

 Gore, Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, 

 who accordingly discharged the tenant and accepted Mr. 

 Sharpe, in company with Mr. Holland and Mr. Molecey, of 

 that place, as tenants. In 1875 the manor was sold, and in 

 1877 the right of fishery was purchased by a few local 

 noblemen and gentlemen, consisting of the following : 

 Lord Kesteven, Lord Burghley, William Holland, William 

 Beadzler Deacon, George Linnell, John Thorpe, John Mole- 

 cey, Twigge Molecey, Edmund Lawlett, and Samuel Bates 

 Sharpe, Esqs., and an angling society formed which has been 

 eminently successful. The Welland is a very good breeding 

 river, running over a gravel bottom, the lower parts running 

 through low-lying lands which in winter become flooded, 



