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ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

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ORDER in Council, permitting the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, in Hamburgh vessels, on payment of the same duties that are charged on similar articles imported or exported in British vessels:dated 30th June, 1824.

2.

Order in Council, permitting the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, in Danish vessels, on payment of the same duties that are charged on similar articles imported or exported in British vessels:dated 30th June, 1824.

3.

Order in Council, permitting the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, in Bremen vessels, on payment of the same duties that are charged on similar articles imported or exported in British vessels :dated 14th August, 1824.

4.

Order in Council, permitting the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, in Lubeck vessels, on payment of the same duties that are charged on similar articles imported or exported in British vessels:dated 14th August, 1824.

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Order in Council, permitting the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, in Oldenburgh vessels, on payment of the same duties that are charged on similar articles imported or exported in British vessels:dated 19th October, 1824.

6.

Order in Council, for exempting all vessels belonging to the inhabitants of Bremen, and being of less burthen than sixty tons, from taking on board pilots to conduct them into the ports of the United Kingdom :- -dated 19th October, 1824.

PARCELS.

Substance of the Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Operation of so much of the Acts of 3 William and Mary, c. 12.; 21 Geo. 2. c. 28.; and 39 Geo. 3. c. 58, as relates to the Carriage of Parcels, and the Porterage thereof, in and near the Metropolis. THE committee after describing the objects of the several acts which they were called upon to consider, and the evidence which had been adduced before them on the subject, declare it to be their opinion that the acts of William and Mary, and of George 2d ought, from being inapplicable to the present times, and indeed from their complete inoperativeness, to be repealed; and that several parts of the 39 Geo. 3 (commonly called the porterage act) required amend

ment.

POT AND PEARL ASHES.

A RETURN of the Quantity of Pot and Pearl Ashes imported into Ireland from His Majesty's Possessions in America, as well as from all Foreign Parts, and from Great Britain, distinguishing each annually; also, the Quantity exported from Ireland; from the 5th day of January, 1820, to the 5th day of January, 1825, inclusive.

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SALMON FISHERIES.

FIRST REPORT from the Select Committee of the
House of Commons appointed to take into Con-
sideration the State of the Salmon Fisheries of
Scotland, and of the United Kingdom, and the
Laws affecting the same.

|ment, but materially also upon a minute inspection of the returns received in answer to the queries sent in the last session of parliament to all parts of the United Kingdom, which are necessarily so voluminous, and so various in form and substance, as to render them unfit to be presented to the house. In reporting these THE Committee beg to state that their resolu- resolutions, the committee have been desirous tions are founded partly upon the evidence to make known as soon as possible the result of taken in the last and present session of parlia- their investigations, upon some of the least

difficult branches of the inquiry committed to them, with the intention of continuing their researches into the more difficult, but very important parts of the subject.

1. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the salmon fisheries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have for many years past rapidly decreased, and that there is every reason to apprehend that they will be diminished still more rapidly, unless effectual measures be resorted to for their pre

servation.

2. That it is of the utmost importance that the fence months, or close time, should be extended, and should commence and cease at the same period in all the salmon fisheries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

3. That the taking or attempting to take, the having in possession, the selling or purchasing salmon, grilse, sea trout, botcher, whitling, whiting or finnock, during the fence months, or close time, ought to be declared illegal, and to subject parties offending to a penalty.

4. That during the fishing season there ought, throughout the rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, and sea coasts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be a close time weekly, commencing at sunset in the evening on Saturday, and terminating at sunrise on Monday, guarded by such penalty as may be deemed sufficient.

5. That it ought to be declared illegal, maliciously to injure or molest in any way the salmon, grilse, sea trout, botcher, whitling, whiting or finnock, when in the rivers, streams, or in the lakes, during the fence months or close time, or in any way maliciously to injure or disturb the spawning-beds, banks, or shallows, and to subject parties offending to a penalty.

6. That the owners or occupiers of mills or other buildings, for the benefit of which water is taken from a river, stream, or lake, in which salmon exist, for the driving of machinery, or any other purpose, ought to be required to erect and maintain such gratings or fenders as shall be sufficient to prevent fish, going from or returning to the sea, from entering the stream so taken from the main current; a specific description of such fender or grating to be furnished for their regulation: the maintenance of such fender or grating to be enforced under a penalty.

where salmon fisheries are carried on, ought to be regulated.

10. That there ought to be established on each river and estuary, including such streams, lakes, and coasts as may be connected therewith, such number of conservators or water-bailiffs as may be necessary, proportioned to the value of the salmon fishery, for the purpose of giving effect to such regulations as are or may be provided by law; the expense of such establishment to be defrayed by the proprietors or lessees of salmon fisheries in the proportion of their respective interests, and to be compulsory upon all persons having legal right to salmon fisheries; the conservators or water-bailiffs to have right to tra verse and inspect the banks of all rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, and coasts, within their respective districts; to inspect all weirs, cruives, dams, mill-streams, and mills, &c. with power to seize and destroy all nets or other engines used for or calculated to kill fish, in any way or at any time, contrary to law.

11. That a process at law ought to be esta blished by which the summary conviction of offenders may be had.

12. That the chairman be instructed forthwith to move for leave to bring in a bill or bills to carry into effect the foregoing resolutions, throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland, respectively.

30th March, 1825.

taken before the committee; a letter from Dr. An appendix contains minutes of evidence Flemming to T. F. Kennedy, esq. dated 16th March, 1825; a paper delivered to the committee by sir G. S. Mackenzie, bart. (with three plans) and a plan of the lower part of Tweed.

Second Report from the same Committee.

Your committee have, since their last report, proceeded in their inquiries into some of the more difficult branches of the subject of the salmon fisheries; in particular, the important consideration of obstructions to the free passage of salmon between the sea and the upper parts of rivers and lakes, where the spawn is deposited, and the young fish come into life. They have been particularly desirous to consider this point in all its bearings, because upon such free pas sage being afforded depends the possibility of the breed being multiplied; and they have approached the inquiry with additional anxiety, because they are fully aware of the delicate ground in some, and of the difficult circumstances in all cases on which they have felt themselves called upon to touch. In some cases such obstructions exist, connected with the salmon fishery, in so far as parties have become possessed of rights to take salmon by means of those obstructions placed across rivers and which can never exist without a greater or less 9. That the size of the meshes of all nets used degree of injury. In other cases similar rights

7. That it is indispensable to guard against the admission into all rivers, streams, estuaries, and lakes, in which salmon exist, of any matter proceeding from manufactories of any description which is known or deemed to be poisonous or deleterious to fish.

8. That the use of lights in taking salmon, or any other species of fish, ought to be declared illegal, and to subject the parties offending to a penalty.

are claimed, although probably on no good from the removal or regulation of such obfoundation. And another class of cases, and structions. Your committee have also gone into that of no small magnitude, is, the obstructions evidence, at considerable length, respecting the arising from the application of water to the modes of taking salmon practised in different purposes of manufactures. Your committee are parts of the United Kingdom, with a view to abundantly aware of the difficulty of this part ascertain the circumstances attendant on each, of the subject, and while they beg to express the which ought to recommend it to the sanction, strongest opinion as to the injurious tendency of or suggest it to the regulation or condemnation all obstructions extending across rivers, they of the legislature. In pursuing this branch of think as each case may be in some degree dif- the inquiry, the end in view has been to ascertain ferent from another, the best course they can at what modes of fishing are adapted to the greatest present adopt is, to recommend that individuals variety of circumstances, and calculated to secure should endeavour, as far as may be possible, to the largest permanent supply of fish in fine conascertain the foundation of right on which such dition, and, being adapted to the habits of the obstructions may have been erected, and are animal, do not interfere with those habits, so as maintained, and, except in such cases as those in to restrain its vast prolific powers. Such a which the interests of the salmon fishery must subject is necessarily complicated in its nature; and ought to be permanently subordinate to but the committee trust their proceedings may manufacturing and other interests, that persons not be deemed wholly unavailing, and that the interested should endeavour to accommodate dif- evidence may be considered as containing the ferences, by uniting in securing a free passage to ground-work of principles on which the legisthe salmon. Your committee do not hesitate to lature may be justified in proceeding, in a future say, that the attainment of this object must be session of parliament, to sanction a measure the foundation of all future prosperity to the having for its object the general regulation of salmon fishery, and that individuals who possess the salmon fisheries of the United Kingdom. a temporary advantage by the enjoyment of an Although your committee were of opinion that undue facility of taking salmon, by means of they possessed abundant evidence on which to fixed works across rivers, in many instances found the resolutions contained in their last mistake their own ultimate and real interest by report, they have, in taking further evidence, maintaining them. Your committee consider it excluded no branch of the subject, but have essential that this free passage should be afforded availed themselves of the full extent of the inforduring the fence months, or close time, for the mation of all witnesses who have come before purpose of securing the multiplication of the them. The testimony of some witnesses may species; and they are equally of opinion that it appear to militate against the opinions which should be afforded in a considerable degree have been expressed by your committee, but during the fishing season, because if those per- they beg to state, that, upon the whole, they sons in whose property, or within reach of whom have not seen cause to alter the opinions which salmon breed, be not permitted to take, when of they have already formed; and they report the a mature size, some proportion of the countless evidence with a conviction, that when fully exmultitudes of fish which their care and pro-amined and understood, it will be felt, that tection may bring into life, it is in vain to expect that such care will be exercised, or that any protection will be given, or to hope that any law will be effectual to prevent the injurious practices during the breeding season, which, wherever they exist, almost extirpate the race. In those rivers on which large commercial cities are situated, and on which the interests of manufactures have led to the expenditure of vast capital, it is not to be looked for that the salmon fishery should flourish; and while it may be from those causes nearly extinct, it would be chimerical to expect that it should ever be restored. Such cases must be obvious, and the committee by no means wish to make recommendations respecting them, which could end only in failure. But while they wish not to be misunderstood in this respect, they are equally sure that there scarcely is a river in the United Kingdom in which the salmon fishery may reasonably be expected to prosper, on which obstructions do not exist, and on which a vast general and public advantage would not arise

while anomalies and exceptions are to be met with, no great or permanent good can be effected without an adherence to uniform principles, which, if called into full operation, will, even to individuals, much more than compensate the partial sacrifices which the adoption of sound and general principles may call upon them for a time to make. In conclusion, your committee cannot refrain from expressing an opinion, that the salmon fisheries of the United Kingdom are eminently deserving, and greatly stand in need, of the protection of the legislature; and that there is every reason to believe, under the influence of a general law, founded in sound principle, that they might rise to an importance and magnitude hitherto unknown.

3d June, 1825.

An appendix contains minutes of evidence taken before the committee, and various plans and miscellaneous papers.

SHIPS AND TONNAGE.

AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Ships, with their Tonnage and Men, which have entered the Ports of the United Kingdom during the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, respectively; specifying the Ports of Entry, and distinguishing the British Ships from the Foreign; with the names of the different Kingdoms or States to which they belong.

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