§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been directed to the Report of the Commissioners on the Solway Fisheries (1881); and, if he proposes to introduce some legislative measure to mitigate the present excessive penalties to which persons are liable under the ninth clause c. 45 Geo. III. 1801, as recommended at page xiv. of the Report?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT ,in reply, said, his attention had been called to the Report. and he would be extremely glad if he could bring in a Bill to give effect to it. He would, however, see whether a Bill of the kind might not be introduced in the other House, with the hope that there might be time to get it through both Houses in the present Session.