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Appendices to Sixteenth Annual Report 



NOTE II. 



CORRESPONDENCE between the NORTH ESK DISTRICT 

 BOARD AND THE FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND 



REGARDING THE CrAIGO AND MORPHIE DaM DyKES, AND 



REPORT ON THE SAID Dykes by Mr. WALTER E. ARCHER, 

 Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland. 



\. Mr. Dickson, Clerk of the District Board, to the Secretary 

 of the Fishery Board, dated 16th February 1897.. 



Sir, — At the spring meeting of the Board on the 12th inst., it 

 was resolved to apply to your Board for the services of an expert to 

 report upon the state of the Morphie and Craigo dam dykes, and the 

 bed of the river in their neighbourhood. I trust it will be quite con- 

 venient for your Board to accede to their request. — Yours, etc., 



Arthur Dickson. 



2. The Secretary of the Fishery Board to Mr. Dickson, 



dated 19th February 1897. 



Sir, — I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 16th inst. 

 ■on the subject of the Morphie and Craigo dam dykes, and I have to 

 state for the information of your Board that your communication will 

 be laid before th^ next meeting of the Fishery Board for Scotland. — 

 I am, etc., 



W. C. Robertson. 



3. The Seci'etary of the Fishery Board to Mr. Dickson 



dated 18th March 1897. 



Sir, — With further reference to your letter of 16th ult., asking 

 a report by an expert on the Morphie and Craigo dam dykes, I have 

 to inform you that the matter was considered by the Fishery Board 

 for Scotland at a meeting held on 12th inst., when I was directed to 

 state that the Board presumed that your Board would not have made 

 this request unless they were of opinion that the dam dykes in question 

 formed a serious obstruction to the passage of fish, and that their efibrts 

 to deal with the matter had failed, and that they were therefore 

 prepared to comply with the request. 



Before issuing any instructions on the subject, however, they 

 desired to know the circumstances under which the application was 

 made, the steps which your Board had already taken in the matter, 

 and the action they proposed taking in the event of an expert report- 

 ing that the present state of the dam dykes was unsatisfactory. — 

 I am, etc., 



David T. Jones, 



For Secretary. 



