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and the Trustees having received this report, again adopted the St 
Mary’s Loch Scheme, which had previously been thrown out on 
Standing Orders in 1869, and again instructed Mr Stewart to pre- 
pare the necessary plans for Parliament. Differing from Mr Stewart 
as to the probable cost, Mr Leslie refused to allow his name to 
appear as engineer of the scheme ; and after having been keenly 
fought in both Houses of Parliament, the St Mary’s Loch Scheme 
was rejected by the Committee of the House of Lords. 
After the next municipal elections, Mr Leslie was appointed sole 
engineer of the Water Trust, and in 1873 he, along with Mr Thomas 
Hawksley, C.E., London, was instructed to report as to the best 
means of obtaining additional supplies for Edinburgh. They issued 
a joint report, recommending that the necessary additional supplies 
for the city should be obtained from the Moorfoot Hills, and this 
scheme having been approved of by a plebiscitum of the citizens, 
the Bill was passed by Parliament during the following year, and 
under it an additional supply of over eight million gallons per day 
was obtained. 
Mr Leslie was also engineer of the Lintrathen Water Scheme, by 
which Dundee obtained an additional supply of eight million 
gallons per day. He was connected with the improvement works 
of most of the towns of Scotland, and acted in conjunction with 
his partners as engineer for the Water Supply of Paisley, Berwick- 
on-Tweed, Dunbar, Peterhead, Galashiels, and many other import- 
ant places. He was also engineer for various harbour works, in- 
cluding those of Easdale, Stranraer, and West Wemyss. 
Mr Leslie had a reputation as an engineer which was not con- 
fined to this country, his advice having been sought in regard to 
extensive reclamation works at Bilbao, in Spain, and also as to the 
construction of floating docks at Cadiz. He was also consulted by 
the Indian Government as to the improvement of the navigation of 
the Biver Godavery by means of inclined planes, on the principle 
formerly adopted by him on the Monkland Canal. 
In 1862 Mr Leslie was appointed by the Home Office, along with 
Messrs W. Efennell and Frederick Eden, a Scottish Salmon Fishery 
Commissioner, an office which he held until the institution of the 
present Scottish Fishery Board in 1882. The duties of the Commis- 
sioners were to fix the boundaries of the districts of every salmon river 
