of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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^' * VIII. No cruive shall be so constructed inclosed, roofed, or built 

 ' over, or in any other manner hidden or fenced in, as to prevent 

 *' ' persons duly authorised from inspecting the same at all times, and 

 " ' ascertaining whether the law is being duly complied with. 



' IX. No cruive shall be so altered as to create a, greater obstructions 

 " ' to the free passage of fish than at present exists.' 



" * Wm. J. Ffennell ] 



" ' Fred. Eden \ Cmmnissioners. 



" * James Leslie 



" ' Fisheries Department, Home Office, 

 18th day of April 1865. 



Approved. 



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Whitehall, 19th July 1865 G. Grey. 



" ' (This bye-law to take effect from the 28th July 1865). 



" 7. At a meeting of the second party's Board, held on 30th June 1866,. 

 " the superintendent of the said Board reported that the said cruives 

 " belonging to the first party were not in accordance with the bye-laws 

 " above quoted. Mr. Hannay, factor for the then Earl of Fife's 

 " trustees, who were then proprietors of the said salmon fishings and 

 " cruives, stated that the cruives were in accordance with Lord Fife's 

 " rights and his titles, and as possessed from tune immemorial, and 



were not subject, so far as regards their construction, to the operations 

 " of the bye-laws. Whereupon Sir George S. Abercromby (an upper 

 " proprietor) gave notice that at next meeting he would move ' that Mr. 

 " ' Hannay be requested to produce for the satisfaction of the Board 

 " ' the said rights, or a copy thereof.' 



" The next meeting of the said Board was held on 28th September 

 " 1866. The minute bears that ' Mr. Taylor, one of Lord Fife's 

 " ' trustees, attended the meeting, and stated, on the part of the 

 " ' trustees, that he would recommend Lord Fife to alter the inscales of 

 " ' the present cruives, so as to harmonise with the bye-law% and this 

 "'though his Lordship's rights were fixed by decree of the Court of 

 " ' Session, and that he would also recommend the races to be paved.' 

 " The motion, of which notice had been given by Sir George S. 

 " Abercromby, was not moved. The inscales of the cruives were there - 

 " after altered so as to harmonise w^th the said bye-law, so far as that 

 " could be done consistently with the maintenance of the width of the 

 " cruive at an ell (which is equal to 37 inches), as fixed by tlie said 

 " interlocutors of Court. 



" 8. The first party and his predecessors, proprietors of the said 

 " cruive dyke, cruives, and fishings, have uninterruptedly maintained, 

 " under and in virtue of the said interlocutors of the Court, the three 

 " cruives of the width of an ell (37 inches) each, in terms of the said 

 " interlocutors. During the weekly close time, the inscales have been 

 '' taken out or removed in terms of the said inter locutors. 

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