Section 4. The Deputy Cominissioner of any District may, subject to such rules, conditions and restrictions as

4. The Deputy Cominissioner of any District may, subject to such rules, conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Chief Commissioner in this behalf, dispose of the right of fishing in any fishery situate within his District, or specially placed under his charge by the Chief Commissioner, in any one of the following modes, that is to say, (a) he may declare such fishery open to the public, or to the inhabitants of any t o m or village, or to any other class of persons : (?I) he may lease the cxclusive right of fishing in such. fishery to any person ; or (c) he may, where he has not disposed of the right of fisliiiig in any of the foregoing modes, grant licenses to any number of persons to use nets, traps 2 1875.1 I 'a .Burma Pisheries. traps and other implements for fishing in such fishery, and (subject as aforesaid) he may declare that any fishery shall cease to bc a fishery for the purposes of this Act. All such declarations, leases and licenses made Declarati~gs and granted by the British Government before this =?,"a:"" Act comes info operation and then in force shall be 1875. deemed to have been respectively made and granted under this section.