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Appendices to Eighteenth Annual Report 



APPENDIX IV. 



CORRESPONDENCE between the CLERK to the DISTRICT 

 FISHERY BOARD for the RIVER BERVIE, and the 

 INSPECTOR of SALMON FISHERIES of SCOTLAND, 

 regarding fixing the Limits of the Estuary of the River 

 Bervie. 



97 High Street, 

 Montrose, 8th February 1900. 



Bervie District Board. 



Dear Sir, — When recently in Edinburgh I called to consult you as 

 to the fixing of the limits of the estuary of the Bervie during the next 

 equinoctial spring tides . . . The Commissioners by their Bye- 

 Law B fixed and defined the limits which divide the river Bervie 

 including the estuary thereof from the sea to be " A portion of a circle 

 of 150 yards radius to be drawn from a centre placed mid -channel in the 

 river where it joins the sea at low water at equinoctial spring tides and 

 continued shorewards by tangents to the circle drawn to the nearest 

 points of the shore of the respective sides of the river at high water 

 mark also of equinoctial spring tides." 



The Fishings on both sides of the river belong to a local proprietor, 

 and those to the north of them belong to the Crown. The boundary 

 between the Fishings is so close to the river that a very little change in 

 its mouth to the northwards would affect the interests of both proprietors 

 and their respective tenants. 



As the Clerk of the District Board, I have always been most anxious 

 to have the limits fixed and defined as accurately as possible, and since 

 the present march line was settled in 1896 they have been fixed by an 

 engineer resident in Montrose. 



With the foregoing explanations I will be very greatly obliged if, at 

 your earliest convenience, you would kindly specify the day and tide 

 when the centre of the river should be fixed during the next equinoctial 

 spring tides. — I am, yours faithfully, 



Arthur Dickson, 

 Clerk. 



Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, 

 Fishery Board Offices, 

 Edinburgh. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 19th February 1900. 



Sir, — In answer to your letter of 8th inst. explaining the conditions 

 under which, through the variation of the mouth of the river Bervie, 

 it is necessary at intervals to determine anew the limits of the estuary, 

 and asking me to specify the day and tide when, in accordance with the 



