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38. We tliiuk also that it would be advisable forthwith to issue amended regulations for the 
guidance of the present so-called lessees without recognising the legality of their position should their 
so-called leases not be immediately cancelled; and it should be carefully provided in these regulations 
that all spat, brood, and ware, when dredged, should be at once returned to the bed from wliich they are 
taken, and only matured oysters sold therefrom. 
39. In conclusion, we would draw your Excellency's attention to the evidence taken by this 
Commission and the reports of Messrs, Langham and Black appended hereto, which contain valuable 
information. We have also thought it advisable to append lithographs to illustrate some of the artificial 
processes for collecting and cultivating oysters in Erance. 
40. We have endeavoured to make our Eeport as complete and brief as possible, but we have 
found that we could not do justice to this most important subject in fewer words. 
Certified under our hinds, at Sydney, this third day of May, 1877. 
THOMAS HOLT, Peesident. 
J. BOWIE WILSON. 
JAMES S. FAENELL, 
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