§ MR. W. EWARTsaid, he rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to render uniform the law with respect to fishing with the single line for trout, and other fish, not of the salmon kind, in Scotland. His object was to remove an anomaly in the law of Scotland. By the general law it was lawful to fish with the line, and where no trespass was committed for fish other than those of the salmon race; but in three or four rivers in the district with which he was by representation connected, by a recent construction of a statute, persons (and the propietor of the fishery himself when it had been let for salmon fishing) were prohibited from fishing, even with the line, for any fish whatever. It was to remove that manifest inconsistency and injustice that he proposed the present Bill.
Bill to render uniform the Law with respect to fishing for Trout and other Fish, not of the Salmon kind, in Scotland, ordered to be brought in by Mr. WILLIAM EWART and Colonel SYKES.
§ Bill presented, and read 1o. [Bill 146]