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does not fish himself, and is only likely to avail 

 himself of the privilege of sending friends to 

 a limited extent. This no doubt is true at 

 the time, but, as soon as the tenant has 

 improved the fishing by stocking and other 

 means, it is quite a different matter. Then all 

 the freeholder's friends keep on asking him for 

 leave, and, very likely hearing of their sport, he 

 will himself take to it, until at last the landlord 

 finds that he has benefited to the extent both 

 of the rent and the improvement in his fishing 

 at the expense of the tenant. It is, therefore, 

 evident that reserved rights should be limited 

 in some way in every equitable agreement. 



Of course, if the river runs past the pro- 

 prietor's house, and is bordered by his lawn, it 

 is reasonable that he should reserve the fishing 

 on that length exclusively for himself and his 

 friends, and it may be fair for him to have 

 the right of fishing himself or sending his 

 friends to any portion of the water for a limited 

 number of days during the season, limiting, 

 too, the number of rods on any one day. 



Before taking a fishery the tenant should Water rights 



. or millers and 



ascertain what mills there are on the property, others. 

 and what rights of water, &c. have been 

 included in the letting of the mills. As a rule 

 he will find that the right of regulating the 

 height of the water in the millpond so as to 



