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any portion of the fishing, the term for which, and the 

 date from which the right is let, the amount of rent, 

 and how payable. The rights, if any, excepted or 

 reserved for the lessor on any portion of the river over 

 which the lessee should not have the right of fishing 

 should be detailed, as well as the right of the lessor, 

 or his servants to enter for the purpose of repairing 

 banks, cutting down or planting trees or bushes, or to 

 raise or lower the level of the water to enable him to 

 carry out any work required in the interests of the 

 property." 



" The lessee's covenants should follow : To pay 

 rent, keep a good stock of fish, and leave the 

 same at the expiration of tenancy, to keep houses or 

 cottages in repair (if this is one of the lessee's obliga- 

 tions), to cut and clear away weeds, to make good any 

 damage occurring to other tenants' land by negligence 

 or wilful act on the part of the lessee or his keepers, 

 and not to underlet or assign without assent of lessor, 

 such assent not to be withheld without just and reason- 

 able cause. The lessee should undertake to provide 

 keeper or keepers, to prevent poaching, to fish in a 

 fair and sportsmanlike manner with rod and line only 

 (except in the case of pike, eels, or other coarse fish), 

 to make proper rules for the regulation of the fishery, 

 such rules to be applicable to himself and his friends, 

 and to specify any limits of size or number of 

 Salmonidse to be killed in one day as well as the 

 seasons during which they can be taken." 



" The lessor's covenants should set forth that he 



