of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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V. — Contraventions of Bye-laws. 
The only contravention of the Bye-laws committed over the district during 
the year was that of James Macdonald, sawmiller, Balnagowan, Nethy-Bridge, 
who, after being repeatedly requested to do so, failed to put and keep in proper 
order his dam-dyke and fish-pass attached thereto, at his sawmills on the Nethy 
stream, at Nethy-Bridge aforesaid. The case being investigated and reported, 
Macdonald was brought up and convicted at the Inverness-shire Sheriff Court 
at Inverness, on 27th November 1889, and fined £1, with ^1, 16s. of expenses, 
or seven days' imprisonment. 
General Remarks. 
All the other Bye-laws relating to hecks and sluices on mill-lades were 
properly attended to over all the district during the year. 
The sea coast and river salmon net-fishing opened on 11th February, and 
closed on 26th August, and during the season, on each occasion of visits to the 
coast, I found the weekly close time strictly observed. 
The full force of bailiffs or Spey police is constituted as follows : — The 
Superintendent, stationed at Aberlour ; the Inspector, stationed at Grantown ; 
eight Sergeants, and thirty-four Constables. 
GEO. K. MACGREGOR, Superintendent. 
Abstract of Account Charge and Discharge of Clerks' Intro- 
missions, Year 1889-90. 
I.— CHARGE. 
To Fishery Assessment on ^10,669, 5s. of Rental, at Is. lOd. per ^1, ^9V8 0 3 
„ Fines and Expenses recovered, 2 0 0 
„ Advance for Men's Wages to 5th October 1889, from last year's 
Account, , . , 58 3 8 
.£1038 3 11 
II.— DISCHARGE. 
By Amount due to Royal Bank per last Account, . . . ^29 17 10 
„ Wages to Inspector and Bailiffs for year, .... 732 12 6 
„ Superintendent, £120, and his Travelling Expenses, 
.£'33, lis. Id., 153 11 1 
„ Bank Interest, Extracts from Valuation Rolls, Printing, and 
Bank Charges, 704 
„ Clerk's Salary and Outlays, 26 0 6 
„ Expenses of Prosecutions, 6 3 7 
„ Advances for Men's Wages to be charged against next year's 
Assessment, 56 8 8 
„ Balance at Credit of Account with Royal Bank, Elgin, . . 26 9 5 
£1038 3 11 
Answers to the following effect have been sent me by Mr James Grant, River Spey— 
Glen Grant, who has been acquainted with the salmon fisheries in the Spey ^^^J^^^^ 
for thirty-two years, and has regularly fished it. Grant, Glen 
He complains of the overnetting in the 9 miles of water belonging to Grant, 
the Duke of Richmond, of the way in which the nets are drawn long nets 
being used, which go close to the opposite side of the river, l)eiug then 
pulled down stream hard, so as to stretch the mesh of the nets so tight 
8. P. / 
