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inches in breadth at the alternate ends of each break, and five feet 

 apart in cases where the gradient of the ladder is one in five and of a 

 greater distance, but the same proportions being maintained where the 

 gradient is easier than one in five. 



7. No dam shall be so altered as to create a greater obstruction to the 

 free passage of fish than at present exists. 



Wm. J. Ffennell, \ 



Fred. Eden, \ Commissioners. 



James Leslie, J 



Fisheries Department, Home Office, 



29th day of April 1865. Approved, 



G. Grey. 



Whitehall, 19th July 1865. 



(This Bye-law to take effect from the 2Sth Julyl865.) 



8. The Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868, Sect. 12. 



XII. And whereas the royal burgi-* of Montrose is supplied with water from 

 sources adjoining the river Korth Esk, which water is raised to the point of dis- 

 tribution by means of water power derived from a watercourse or mill-lade having 

 its intake at Morphie dam dyke on the said river, and returning to the river at a 

 point near the lower north water bridge on the said river, commonly called the 

 mill-lade of Kinnaher, and great inconvenience would arise from the application to 

 the said watercourse or niill-lade of certain of the bye-laws by this Act made valid 

 and binding : Be it enacted, That nothing in the said bye-laws, or in this or in 

 the recited Acts, or any of them, as to the placing of hecks or gratings, or the 

 shutting of sluices at the intake of mill -lades or watercourses, shall apply to the 

 said watercourse or mill-lade known as the mill-lade of Kinnaher, excepting in so 

 far as regards the lowering of the intake sluice during the weekly close time, and 

 then only so as to leave a free space during such close time of not less than 

 eighteen inches between the bottom of the sluice and the sill or bed of such 

 mill-lade or watercourse. 



9. Excerpt from Letter from the late Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., 

 (Fox Maule) to David Lyall, Esq. of Gallery, Member of the 

 District Board, dated Invermark, Brechin, 24th August 1868: — 



** I think I have influence enough with the Montrose people to persuade them 

 " to forego any advantage which the slip you mention may give them, as it was 

 ** mainly through me they got the clause originally introduced into a former Bill." 



