[Appendix A(33) 1792 Report of Commissioners of Inquiry]

N° 33.

The EXAMINATION of SENHOUSE WILSON, Esq. Deputy Receiver General of the Isle of Man, taken at Douglas the 28th Day of September, 1791.

[Examined by His Grace the Duke of Atholl.]

THIS Examinant saith, that. he is acquainted with the Salmon Fisheries of this Island, consisting of the Rents of the different Bay Fisheries round the Island, let to Farm at present by the Receiver General to different People, to the Amount, as he thinks, of Twenty-one or Twenty-two Pounds per Annum, payable once a Year to the Receiver General, about the month of September.---That he does not know any Instance where the letting these Bay Fisheries by the Receiver General has been the Means of detecting or preventing illicit Practices. These Fisheries have been let by Orders of the Lords of the Treasury upon Leases, always, as he believes for seven Years.

SENHOUSE WILSON

Jn^o Spranger.
W^m Osgoode.
Will^m Roe.
David Reid.

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