156 APPENDIX TO REPORT ON OYSTER CULTURE 



2. Persons entitled to plant Oyster Beds exclusively below low- 

 watermark. 



i. Any of the persons named before. 



k. Any person whatever, with the Licence in writing of the 

 Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, save that such Licence cannot be 

 granted within a Several Fishery, or on the soil and bed of any 

 estuary being the private property of some person other than 

 the applicant, without the consent in writing of the owner 

 thereof. 



Note. — Forms of application for Licences can be obtained at the Office of the Inspectors 

 of Irish Fisheries, Dublin. Every application must be accompanied with a six-inch Ord- 

 nance Sheet on which the proposed bed is clearly delineated and marked out. 



Licences. 

 inspectors 3. Inspectors of Irish Fisheries may grant Licences to form or plant 



Scene™ 11 * Oyster Beds or Layings, whether above or below low-watermark. 



32 & 33 Vic, 



and 20%nd ' 4. Licences to be in writing under the hands of any two of the 

 ?97 fJ lc -> Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, and to define by reference to map or other- 

 Licences to w ^ e ^ ie position and limits of Oyster Bed. Licences may be made 

 be in writing, subject to such conditions and limitations, and may be perpetual or 

 c 97, s. 5. 1C '' terminable, as to the Inspectors shall seem proper. 



Where public 5. No Licence can be granted in any place where the Inspectors shall 

 29 S & S 3o X Vic. De of opinion that the public exercise and enjoy bona fide a substantially 

 c 97, s. 6. profitable fishing for oysters, nor within the limits of any Oyster Bed or 

 Oyster Fishery, the property of any private person. 



Licences to 6. Licences subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant. 



be approved 



32 & 33 Vic.] 7. Previously to granting Licence, notice, stating application and 



c. 92, s. 14 



Notice to 1 

 given previ 



the time and place (not sooner than three weeks from the date of such 



notice), when and where the Inspectors shall hold a public inquiry in the 



ousiy to the district, as to the expediency of granting Licence, to be inserted at least 



granting of 



Licence! three times in some newspaper circulating in the district ; and also to 



29 & 30 Vic., 

 c. 97 s. 6. 



be posted at or near the nearest police station. 



Notice to be 8. After granting Licence, like notices to be given, and a true copy 

 granting °^ ever y such Licence signed by the Secretary, to be lodged with the 

 Licence. _ Clerk of the Peace of the County within which the Licence shall operate ; 

 c. 97, s. 7. 1C ' and a copy certified under the hand of such Clerk of the Peace shall be 



admitted in evidence in the same manner as if the copy was the 



original Licence. 



Persons dis- 9. Any person feeling dissatisfied may appeal within one month after 



appeai ed may the granting of Licence by way of memorial to the Lord Lieutenant in 



29 & 30 Vic, Council, that Licence may be vacated ; and notice of such appeal must 



be given to the Licencee and to the Inspectors. Lord Lieutenant in 



Council shall adjudicate thereon, and either confirm or vacate such 



Licence. 



Effect of 1 0. Licence, if unappealed from, or if confirmed on appeal, shall be 



29 1C & 1 30 Vic, binding and conclusive on all persons, including the Queen, and shall 

 c. 97, s. 9. operate to vest in Licencee, and heirs, &c, such rights and privileges 



as shall be given thereby, free from all prior or other rights, titles, estates, 



or interests. 



