12,722. Have you or anybody else been fined for that, or for selling your goods to other people, since 1855?-No.
12,723. Except on that one occasion in 1858, when your father was fined for selling eggs?-Yes.
12,724. Can you sell your eggs to the lighthouse keepers now, or to any person you please?-Yes.
12,725. You are not bound now to sell them to Mr. Umphray?- Not so far as I know.
12,726. Have you sold eggs to Mr. Robertson's man within the last year or two?-Yes.
12,727. How do you sell your beasts?-To Mr. Adie.
12,728. Can you not sell them to any person you like?-Yes; but the cash must be returned to him.
12,729. You mean the cash must be handed to because you must pay your debts?-Yes.
12,730. Is there anything else you wish to say about Skerries?- Nothing, except that I may state, on behalf of all the men who are in the town now from Skerries, that they would like their freedom to fish for any man who would pay them best, and be allowed to get whatever they require from the cheapest market.
12,731. Supposing you had your freedom, is there one to whom you could sell your fish for a better price than Mr. Adie allows?- There are no others at the present time, so far as I know; but opposition might arise if there were more buyers than one, and if we had our freedom.