26 MAKING A FISHERY. 



pay rates the local authorities are prone to 

 assess the sporting rights at an excessive sum, 

 as they argue that the London gentlemen 

 coming down there to fish should be made to 

 contribute liberally towards the rates. If the 

 rates are paid by the landlord they do not seem 

 to realise that they are included in the rent, and 

 are apt to consider that their own neighbour, as 

 lord of the manor, should not be bled as freely 

 as a stranger. There are other reasons, such as 

 the liability to be summoned on juries, &c, why 

 the tenant should, if possible, try and be exempt 

 from assessment. 



The lessor must undertake to lower and 

 regulate water level as required by the lessee for 

 the purpose of weed-cutting and netting. This 

 is necessary because the regulation of hatches 

 in such cases is usually in the discretion of the 

 millers and farmers. They may or may not be 

 on good terms with the fishing tenant. If he is 

 a man of sense and judgment he will do all 

 in his power to be friendly with them ; but 

 occasionally there are millers and farmers who 

 resent the intrusion of any so-called stranger, 

 and who might refuse to raise or lower hatches, 

 and thus effectually prevent the tenant from 

 carrying out his obligations to cut and remove 

 weeds, net, &c. 



The lessor should further undertake to keep 



