1243. Had you signed any agreement to do that?-I was never called upon to sign any agreement, but Mouat told me that his agreement with the proprietor was that I was bound to fish for him; and he told me that if I did not fish for him, he had power to warn me out of the place where I lived. 1244. When did he tell you that?-He told me that at the commencement of the tack, seventeen years ago. 1245. Had you been in the same ground before that time?-Yes. 1246. Who did you hold from at that time?-The tacksman before Mouat was Mr. Spence, Lerwick. He collected the rents for Mr. Bruce. 1247. Was he the tacksman or only a factor?-He was a lawyer or tacksman, taking up the money for Mr. Bruce. 1248. Were you bound then to fish for any particular individual?- We were always bound. 1249. After Mouat told you that you must fish for him, did you ever fish for any one else during the whole of these seventeen years?-No. 1250. Why did you not sell your fish to any one else?-For fear of being warned off the property where was living; and I had nowhere else to go to, because I was a poor man. 1251. Is it the home fishing you are now speaking of?-Yes, the home or ling fishing; but I have been in the whale fishery, and in the straits fishery, and the Faroe fishery, as well as in the home fishery. 1252. But you were not at these other fishings for Mouat?-No; I was at home when I fished for him. 1253. Could you engage with any one you pleased for the whale fishing or the Faroe fishing?-Yes. 1254. You have no complaint to make about that-No; I could go to any one I liked, only I was bound under tack to Mouat. 1255. When you fished for Mouat, did you deliver your fish to his people?-Yes. 1256. Where?-At Levenwick. 1257. Did you deliver them green or dry?-Green. 1258. How were you paid for them?-We were just paid as he liked to pay us. He gave us just what he chose. 1259. When were you paid for them?-Sometimes in March, sometimes about the New Year, or just when he chose to make arrangements for paying us. 1260. Did he pay you then for all the fish of the previous season?-Yes. 1261. At what time in the season did you begin to fish?-We began in the spring-generally in the month of May. 1262. And all the fish which you caught from May down to next winter were paid for in January or February or March?-Yes; or at any time, just as he chose to make arrangements for paying. 1263. Did you make a bargain about the price at the beginning of the season?-No. 1264. Did you make your bargain when you delivered your fish to him?-No. 1265. When did you fix the price which you were to get?-He fixed the price when he paid us. 1266. Did you ever object to the price which he fixed?-Many a time. 1267. You made that objection at settling day?-Yes. 1268. What did he when you asked for a larger price?-He told us that we should have no more, and that we were in duty bound to fish for him.