Twenty-first.—­I do not understand the meaning of this.  But taken in its ordinary sense, it seems to me to be very unjust.  Many persons have traps in their weirs for the purpose of taking Salmon to which they plead a prescriptive right.  Do you mean to do away with these?  You may succeed in this, but why should not a man be allowed to fish in the river above the weir where there are no obstructions to the passage of the fish?  And why should not a man be allowed to fish with a rod and line below the weir, and as near to it as he chooses?  I think weirs might be safely divided into two classes:  those used for manufacturing purposes and those for fishery purposes; that a man should be allowed to say in which class his weir should be included.  If for manufacturing purposes he should not be allowed to catch Salmon (except with rod and line) within a certain distance below the weir.  If he choose to class his weir as one for fishery purposes, he should then be compelled to give a free passage to the fish for twelve hours every day; but he should be compelled to make his election as to the class in which he would include his weir.

Twenty-fifth.—­It would never do to allow the commissioners to make bye-laws.  Suppose the case of a millowner who got into a dispute with them:  he might be utterly ruined by their bye-laws; they might make bye-laws which deprived him of his water-power, under a pretext that they were taking more efficient care of the Salmon.

Thirty-first.—­I think the licence to angle should be compulsory, and not at the discretion of the commissioner.  That it should be in the nature of a game licence, qualifying and enabling the holder to angle in any river of Great Britain and Ireland, provided he had the consent of the owner of the fishery where he was angling.

(Additional observations).  Twelfth.—­You say that no double net shall be used.  Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net?  You also prohibit one net behind another, but you do not specify the distance outside of which a second net would be lawful.  If neither a series of Scotch nets nor a single trammel is to be used, by what sort of net do you propose to catch the Salmon?

Nineteenth.—­You say the sluices which admit water to wheels or factories shall be kept closed from six o’clock on Saturday night to six o’clock on Monday morning.  How, then, are the repairs of shafting and machinery to be made?  These are generally done when the workpeople have gone home on Saturdays.  Besides, what is your object?  If the river is low, the Salmon will not be running up the stream, and if it be in flood there will always be an abundant supply running over the weir in addition to that which would be required to turn the wheel.  You add that the water may be allowed to flow freely through the waste-gate, provided the opening of such a waste-gate shall not deprive the mill of the necessary supply of water.