11,303. But you do enter into a written agreement which each man signs?-Sometimes, and sometimes not. Sometimes the agreement does not bind them at all. We can get no damages from them if they choose to break through it; it is simply a moral agreement, not a legal one at all.
11,304. What is the use of having an agreement if it is not binding?-Just to show their proportion of the speculation, and f or the sake of making up the half-yearly returns for the Board of Trade.
11,305. Have you a regular form of agreement?-I cannot say that it is uniform; it has to be altered in some years.
11,306. Do you write out one annually for each smack?-No; it is all one agreement, which is applicable to the whole of them; there is no difference whatever. I shall send one of these agreements.
<Adjourned>.
SCALLOWAY; TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1872
GILBERT TULLOCH, examined.
11,307. Are you the shopkeeper at Scalloway for Messrs. Hay & Co.?-I am.
11,308. They have a curing establishment here, and buy a quantity of fish?-Yes.
11,309. They also have a shop in which goods of all descriptions are sold?-Yes, all that are generally sold to fishermen.