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' used or not, should be made to bear a proportion of the cost of 

 ' taxation. 



1 No portion of a salmon-water would then be untaxed unless it be the 

 ' parts where the proprietors have not registered and yet have the right to 

 4 fish. To meet this, suppose that the period for registration were extended, 

 ' and that all proprietors of salmon fishings be compelled to register within 

 1 that period, or in the event of their not doing so, right to lapse to Crown, 

 ' and to be disposed of as above. All registered proprietors to be assessable 

 1 either according to frontage or according to valued rent, as per County 

 1 Assessment Roll. Crown to bear burden of taxation of water not gifted 

 1 and still held by it. 



' No one to have a right to fish for salmon unless he is a registered pro- 

 1 prietor, or possesses a written authority from such proprietor, or is a tenant 

 ' of fishings under such proprietor, and such right to be limited to the 

 1 waters in which such registered proprietor has a legal right to fish for 

 ' salmon, and to be always exhibited when required by the District Board, 

 1 or by those officially appointed by them ; penalties in breach thereof to 

 1 be enforced as other penalties of Act.' 



I have the honour to be, 



Your obedient Servant, 



AKCEP- YOUNG, 



Inspector of Salmon Fisheries 

 for Scotland. 



The Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 4th April 1889. 



