Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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LOANS TO FISHEKMEN TO PURCHASE BOATS AND 
GEAR. 
During the past year 70 applications for loans were received Applications 
from crofting parishes, the applicants numbering 298, and t^^^' airpH7an'ts,and 
amount asked being £11,184, 13s. By far the largest number of aitjount asked, 
applications were as usual received from the districts of Stornoway 
and Wick. 
Full inquiry was made into each case, and of the applications Number and 
received thc} Board, after the fullest consideration, decided to grant j^J^^g"^ wanted 
25 loans, the sum sanctioned amounting to £4,721. Forty- fou r anTcompieted. 
loans were completed, the amount paid over beinj,^ £8287, 10s. 
Since the Crofters Act of 1886 came into operation, 865 appli- Particulars of 
cations has^e been received from 3181 persons ; the amount asked Qrof^g^,!^^ct 
being £104,532, 8s. In 346 casjs loans have been sanctioned, was passed, 
amounting to £41,471, 16s., and 241 have been carried out, the 
S'un paid over being £29,213, 16s. 7d. 
The following are details of the applications received and Details 
advances made in the different fishery districts containing crofting f^s^^^^^^s 
parishes:— d'istricts. 
FiNDHORN District.* 
This is the only district affected by the 32nd section of the Findhom 
Crofters Act of 1886 from which no applications for loans have ^^i^trict. 
ever emanated. 
Cromarty District. 
Two applications were received last year from 8 persons for Cromarty 
aJvances amounting to £634, but in neither case was a loan sane- 
tioned, — two loans made in 1889 being the only ones yet carried 
out in Cromarty District. 
Instalments — principal and interest — amounting to £74, 6s. 6d. 
have fallen due, of which £61, lis. 5d. has been paid, and £12, 158. 
Id. is in arrear. 
Helmsdale District. 
In 1890 17 persons resident in this district made live applica- Helmsdale 
lions for participation in these loans, the gross amount asked being 
£636. One loan was sanctioned, for £250 and ultimately paid 
over, being the only loan made last year. 
Since the Crofters Act of 1886 came into operation, ten loans have 
been made, all of which were for the purchase of boats, the amount 
issued being £1519. 
Instalments — principal and interest — amounting to £423, 9s. lOd. 
have fallen due, £238, 10s. 5d. of which has been paid, while 
£184, 198. 5d. is in arrear. 
* The boundaries of each fishery district will be found on pp. 5-23 of 
Appendix A, No. I. 
