MR. MACDONALD CAMERON (Wick, &c.)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether his attention has been called to complaints that the Trustees of the Hemprigg's Estates, and the British Fishery Society, acting through their agents, have from time to time prevented the fishermen of Wick and Pulteneytown from drying and mending their nets on and otherwise using the foreshore and forelands for the space of 100 yards above the highest high water mark, in accordance with the rights conferred upon people engaged in the white herring fishery, by Section 11 of the Act 11 Geo. IV. c. 31; and, whether the Government have considered whether the Act applies to such cases as these?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENEEAL FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. J. P. B. ROBERTSON) (Bute)(who replied) said, the Lord Advocate had been informed by the Chairman of the Carthnenshire Fisherman's Association that he had attended every meeting of the association since it was formed, and that he never heard of any such complaints as those referred to by the hon. Member against either the Hemprigg's Trustees or the British Fishery Society, or their agents; and that, so far as the fishermen are concerned, there is no ground for any such complaint in any action of the above-named Trustees or Society. The agent for the Hemprigg's Trustees also informs the Lord Advocate that no such complaint has ever been made to them.