of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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getting the question settled would be by a District Board petitioning the 

 Secretary for Scotland to alter the bye-laws by restoring the ancient 

 provision as to a mid-stream, or otherwise materially modifying the con- 

 struction of cruives. If the Secretary for Scotland did this, the matter 

 would probably come before the Courts ; if he did not, he would no doubt 

 be acting under the advice of the law officers of the Crown. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 23rd January 1894. 



