1092. Do your daughters have a book?-No; but the merchant enters these things in his own book. 1093. Then they have an account with Mr. Linklater-which is kept in his book?-Yes. 1094. What is the name of your daughter?-Elizabeth Christie. 1095. Is the account in Mr. Linklater's book kept in her name?- Yes. 1096. You say that you buy your goods until the end of the year from your landlord's shop: is it from the shop at Scalloway or in Lerwick that you generally buy?-I buy from both places. 1097. Is there an account in your name in both shops?-Yes; I can go to any place I like. 1098. And you get the same class of goods at both?-I don't think there is much difference. 1099. Do you get every kind of goods at both shops?-Yes. Lerwick, January 2, 1872, CHARLES SINCLAIR, examined. 1100. You are a fisherman in Burra?-Yes. 1101. Do you hold any land there?-No, I have only a room, and pay rent for it, in an old mansion-house on the island. 1102. To whom do you pay rent?-To Messrs. Hay. 1103. How do you make your living?-By fishing, and sometimes by going as master of a small coasting vessel. 1104. Does that vessel belong to you?-No; I sometimes get employment from the owners in Lerwick,-from Mr. Leask, or Messrs. Hay, or others. 1105. You have not a permanent employment as master?-No, but I am competent for taking charge of a vessel at times. 1106. Is that a vessel employed in the fishing trade?-Yes, and sometimes in the coasting trade, taking cured fish to any port in England or Scotland. 1107. You have been present during the examination of the previous witnesses during the day?-Yes. 1108. Do you concur generally in what they have stated?-So far as I can remember it, I do. 1109. Is there anything additional you want to say?-Yes. Our wishes are to have our liberty to fish for whoever we please, and to make the best we can of our fish. 1110. But you are not bound in any way?-I am bound to fish for Messrs. Hay in the long-line and herring fishing in the island. 1111. Did you sign any obligation-to fish for Messrs. Hay only?- No. 1112. Then in what way are you bound?-By our father signing an obligation. 1113. Are you the son of a Burra man?-Yes. 1114. Did your father sign the obligation eight years ago?-Yes. 1115. What reason have you to suppose that binds you to fish?- My father told me when he came home, that neither he nor his sons were to be allowed to fish to any other men than Messrs. Hay. 1116. Is it eight years since he told you that-Yes. 1117. Is your father alive?-Yes, he is here. His name is John Sinclair. 1118. Have you attempted or wished to fish for any other than Messrs. Hay?-Yes; in the Faroe fishing, but nowhere else. 1119. Was there any objection taken to your doing so?-No; because at the time when I broke off from Messrs. Hay they could not suit me with a vessel. I was competent to take charge of a vessel, and they had none to give me, and for that reason they let me off.