CONTENTS. 



JT. SOL WAY SALMON RIVERS — 



The Esk, 



The Annan y . 

 The Kirtle, 

 The Nith, 



The Macdonald Fishway, 

 The Urr, 

 The Dee, 



The Fleet, : ' . 

 The Cree, 

 The Bladenoch, 

 The Luce, 



Decisions of the Special Commissioners,under the Solway Salmon 

 Fisheries Act of 1877, with regard to Fixed Engines in 



the 



Firth, 



Annual Close Time for Sokvay Rivers, 

 II. TEE SOLWAY QUESTION, . 



III. THE SALMON RIVERS OF AYRSHIRE— 



General Remarks on, 

 The Stinchar, . < . 



The Girvan, 

 The Doon, 

 The Ayr, 

 The Irvine, 

 The Garnock, . 

 Want of District Boards on Ayrshire Rivers, 



Concluding Remarks on the Solway and Ayrshire Rivers, 



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APPENDIX. 



I. State showing 'the result of the Proceedings of the Special Com- 

 missioners for Solway Fisheries in regard to the fixed Engines 

 in the Solway Firth and the Rivers flowing into the same, 



1879, 134 



II. Memorandum by the Special Commissioners for Solway 

 Fisheries as to their Proceedings under the Act 40 & 41 Vict, 

 cap. ccxl., ....... 137 



III. Suggestions for the Improvement of the Fisheries in the Annan 



District, by an Old Fisherman, July 1883, . . . 144 



IV. List of Paidle Nets in the River Nith and Estuary thereof, in 



Parish of Carlaverock, Dumfriesshire, and in Parish of 

 Troqueer and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, . . . 146 



V. Explanatory Note by Mr Leslie, C.E., one of the Commissioners 

 of Scotch Salmon Fisheries as to the Limits of the Solway 

 Firth, ....... 150 



VI. Map showing new Limits of Solway Firth as proposed by Messrs 

 Walpole & Young, in their Report of 1881 on the Laws affect- 

 ing the Salmon Fisheries of the Solway Firth, 152 



