<Adjourned>.
Lerwick: Tuesday, January 9, 1872. <Present>-Mr. Guthrie.
WILLIAM GOUDIE, examined.
4255. You are a fisherman at Toab, in Dunrossness, on the property of Mr. Bruce of Sumburgh?-I am.
4256. Are you under any obligation, by the terms on which you hold your land, to fish for any particular fish merchant?-Yes; we are under an obligation to fish for Mr. Bruce, younger of Sumburgh.
4257. Is that obligation part of a verbal contract or lease which you have with him?-It is generally known that we must not break that rule.
4258. You have no leases on the Sumburgh estate?-No; but we had an offer of a lease. The offer I had is here. [Produces paper.]
4259. The document you hand in is a printed copy of 'Rules for the better management of the Sumburgh estate?'-Yes.
4260. When did you get it?-Last year, at settlement, so far as I remember. That would be in the spring of 1871.
4261. When is your settling time?-There is not always one settling time. Some years it is later, and some years earlier.