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Appendices to Twenty -second Annual Report 



Protection — 



1. £3196 10s. 



2. £479 9s. 6d. 



3. Four (three at Annan and one at Lochmaben). 



4. (1) Four persons for contravening Section 20 of The Salmon Fisheries 



(Scotland) Act, 1868 — two fined £5 and 10s. 3d. of expenses or 30 

 days ; one fined £3 and 10s. 3d. of expenses or 21 days (went to prison); 

 one fined £2 and 10s. 3d. of expenses or 10 days (fine paid). (2) Four 

 persons for contravening Section 27 of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) 

 Act, 1862 — each fined £2 and 8s. 6d. of expenses or 10 days (fines all paid). 

 (3) One person for contravening Section 20 of the Salmon Fisheries 

 (Scotland) Act, 1868— fined £3 and 31s. 6d. of expenses or 21 days 

 (fine paid). (4) Two persons for contravening Section 20 of The Salmon 

 Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868 — each fined £2 and 17s. of expenses 

 or 30 days (went to prison). (5) One person for contravening Section 

 20 of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868 — case dismissed. 

 (6) One person for contravening Section 33 of The Annan Act, 1841 

 — fined 10s. and 33s. 6d. of expenses or 14 days (fine paid). (7) Four 

 persons for contravening Section 33 of the Annan Act, 1841 — found 

 not proven. 



Obstructions to the Passage of Fish— 



1. No alteration. 



2. No cruives in district. Dams — Yes, with the following exceptions, viz. : — 



On the Annan — No heck at tail of mill-race at Brydekirk Mill, belonging 

 to James Graham, meal miller, residing there. On the Kirtle — At 

 Beltenmont Mill, belonging to Miss Ann Beattie, 13 Church Street, 

 Annan, there are no hecks at intake or tail of mill-race, and never 

 were ; and at Kirtlebridge Mill, belonging to the trustees of the late 

 John Irving, per Herbert Cavan Irving, Esq., Burnfoot, Ecclefechan, 

 there is no heck at tail of mill-race, and never was. On the Mein — 

 At Mein Mill, belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch, there are no hecks 

 at intake or tail of mill-race, and never were. 



3. Yes ; one new fish-pass has been built in the mill-dam at Beltenmont 



Mill aforesaid. Still, I do not think it gives a free passage to fish 

 wishing to ascend. 



4. Yes ; with the exception of the one at Beltenmont Mill and one at New 



Mill aforesaid. 

 5 and 6. No alterations. 



Pollutions — 

 1 and 2. None. 



The Salmon Disease — 



1. Yes; 12th November 1902, on a sea- trout. At its height during February 



and disappeared end of February. 



2. Medium. 



3. Yes ; 19, all in February (found dead), 7 male and 12 female (15 keltsand 



4 clean fish). 



The Spawning Season — 



1. On 21st December 1902 ; owing to the river being frequently in flood 



during that and the previous month, they were not easily seen in the 

 lower portion of the river. 



2. During January. 



3. On 18th February the last were observed on the spawning beds. 



4. High. 



5. About an average. 



6. Northfield, Mount Annan, Meinfoot, Hoddam Bridge, Mainholm, and 



Rotchell on the Annan. 



