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Appendices to Second Annual Report 



' IX. The Conservators of the Eden, the members of the Esk and 

 1 Liddle Angling Association, the District Board of the Annan, and 

 ' the District Board of the Kith, should respectively appoint a re- 

 ' presentative trustee. 



' X. There should be auuually paid to the trustees so appointed 

 ' such portion of the revenues of the four rivers, not being more 

 ' than one-fifth or less than one-tenth, as the trustees might deter- 

 ' mine ; and the amounts so paid -should be invested from time to 

 ' time for the purpose of being ultimately applied to the purchase 



■ of the fixed engines on the Scotch side of the Firth, if a majority of 

 c the representative trustees should consider such purchase desirable. 



' XL The powers of the trustees should continue till the purchase 

 ' of these engines was accomplished (should such purchase be 

 ' deemed desirable), and until any debts which they might have 

 ' incurred had been defrayed ; and, subject to these conditions, they 



* should have power to hold any fishery which they might acquire ; 

 ' and to borrow any money on the revenues which might be payable 



* to them.* 



' XII. No fixed engines other than those declared legal by the 

 ' Special Commission under the Act of 1877 should be legal on the 

 ' Scotch side of the Solway. 



' XIII. In the event of any legislation on the subject of the 

 ' English Salmon Fisheries, we recommend that opportunity would 



■ be taken to re-enact the clause of the Solway Act relating to the 

 ' use of nets for trout and other fresh- water fish. 



1 XIV. In the event of any legislation on the subject of Scotch 

 1 Salmon Fisheries, we recommend that a new clause prohibiting 

 ' unqualified persons from fishing in private waters should be sub- 

 ' stituted for the 9th section of the Solway Act. 



' XV. We wish to add that grave inconvenience arises from the 

 ' fact that a summons issued in England is not serviceable in Scot- 

 1 land, and vice versa. This alteration of the law, however, is, we 

 ' believe, required on general grounds, and ought not to be confined 

 ' to salmon fishery purposes.' 



III.— THE SALMON EIVERS OF AYKSHIRE. 



Ayrshire has a coast-line of 70 miles on the Irish Sea and 

 the Firth of Clyde, and has six considerable risers — the Stinchar, 

 the Girvan, the Doon, the Ayr, the Irvine, and the Garnock. The 

 three last named are now almost salmonless owing to pollutions, 

 obstructions, and poaching, and there is no District Board on any 

 of them. But the fishings on the Stinchar, Girvan, and Doon, 

 especially those on the Doon, have rather improved since the late 



* It ought to be mentioned that the Annan District Board, within whose jurisdic- 

 tion are the most valuable stake-nets on the Solway Firth, strongly object to the 

 provisions of this and the immediately preceding section, on the ground that it is 

 unjust and unfair, not only to suppress the most valuable net fishings in their dis- 

 trict, but also, in addition, to make them pay for that suppression 



