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Commissioner entrusted with this duty made most searching 

 inquiries along the sea coasts, and also along river banks, to 

 ascertain whether the proprietors who claim salmon fisheries 

 there could show a legal title to them. Much irritation was 

 caused by these proceedings; and it seems not unreasonable 

 that, in respect of the revenue obtained by the Crown from 

 Scotch Salmon Fisheries, the Executive Government should 

 not grudge the expense of affording the means of additional 

 protection.* 



This is a practical question which may well be pressed on the 

 attention of Her Majesty's Government. The Association recently 

 formed for the improvement of Scotch Salmon Fisheries would 

 render signal service to the country, by appointing a deputation 

 to wait upon the Home Secretary, to urge that steps should be 

 taken for remedying evils, officially made known to Government 

 twelve years ago, and now attempted to be more fully explained 

 in the foregoing pages. 



* It is said, that the amount of Salmon Fishery Rents now drawn by the 

 Crown in Scotland amounts to about ^7000; and that they are annually 

 increasing. 



