548. You are a fisherman at Scatness, in Dunrossness?-I am. 549. Are you a tenant of land?-Yes. 550. Under whom?-Under Mr. Bruce of Sumburgh. 551. How much rent do you pay?-For the present year I pay between £10 and £11 of rent. 552. Have you more land this year than usual?-Yes; I have more than I used to have. 553. Do you fish in the home fishing?-Yes. 554. Do you fish in the Faroe fishing?-No; I don't go to it. 555. How long have you been at Dunrossness?-Ever since I was a child. 556. Have you always been in the same house?-Yes; except for about two and a half years. 557. What is your age?-I am thirty-eight years old. 558. You have come here today to make some statement about the system of fishing?-Yes. 559. What is the complaint you wish to make?-There is one thing we complain of: that we are bound to deliver our fish, wet or green, to the landlord. 560. That is, you have to deliver the fish as they are caught?-Yes; of course we have to take out the bowels and cut off the heads: it is the bodies of the fish we give. We think it would be much better if we had liberty to dry the fish ourselves, as we used to do formerly. 561. To whom are you bound to give your fish?-To Mr. Bruce, our landlord. 562. Is he a fish-curer or fish-merchant?-Yes. 563. Is it Mr. Bruce or his son that you are speaking of?-It is young Mr. Bruce. He is the landlord or tack-master. His father is alive; but I think young Mr. Bruce has got power from his father to manage the tenants according to his own pleasure. 564. Do you pay your rent to young Mr. Bruce?-Yes. 565. And does he give you a receipt for it in his own name?-We settle once a year with him for our fishing, and for the store goods we have got, and rent and everything together. 566. Do you get an account for the whole?-He generally gives us a copy of our account. Sometimes, perhaps, he does not do so; but he will give it if we ask for it. 567. Have you got a copy of your account for any year with you?- I have not got one here, but I will send one. 568. Is that all you have got to say on the subject of your complaint?-No; I have something more. Of course, as we are bound to fish for Mr. Bruce, a man, unless he has money of his own, is shut up to deal at Mr. Bruce's shop. His credit is gone at every other place, and that binds us to take our goods from his store; and generally the goods there are sold at the highest value. Meal, particularly, has for some years been 4s. a boll above what it was in Lerwick; and very often, when we ask the price of goods at the time we get them, they do not know the price which they are to charge us, and we never learn what the price is until we come to settle. 569. Is there any other store in the neighbourhood from which you could purchase at a cheaper rate?-There are some other stores in the parish that we could purchase from.