Whereas in pursuance of an agreement made in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two the sum of ten thousand pounds was advanced by the Public Works Loan Commissioners to the Eyemouth Harbour Trustees on the security of the harbour revenues with the collateral security of the Fishery Board for Scotland:
And whereas under an arrangement confirmed by section three of the [1 Edw. 7. c. 35.] Public Works Loans Act, 1901, the liability of the Eyemouth Harbour Trustees in respect of the said loan has been extinguished without prejudice to the liability of the Fishery Board for Scotland to repay that loan, and, in consequence thereof, the said collateral security is the sole security for the repayment of the said loan:
And whereas the terms of the said collateral security are embodied in a memorandum of agreement between the Secretary for Scotland and the Public Works Loan Commissioners, dated the eleventh day of March eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whereby a portion of the " surplus herring brand fees," as defined in clause three of the, said memorandum, was pledged in security for the repayment of the said loan with interest by the instalments and at the times mentioned in the security given by the Eyemouth Harbour Trustees for the said loan, and it was provided that the said portion of the" surplus herring brand fees " of any one year should only be applicable to the repayment of the one-fiftieth part of principal and interest on outstanding principal falling due under the security for the said loan in the same year, and should not be applicable to the repayment of arrears of principal:
And whereas the said portion of the " surplus herring brand fees " so pledged as aforesaid, was in the year ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, insufficient to discharge in full the instalment of principal with interest which fell due under the security for the said loan in that year, and the principal sum of two hundred pounds, with interest amounting to two hundred and eight pounds four shillings and sixpence, now remains unpaid and under the terms of the said memorandum of agreement is irrecoverable :
Therefore the said principal sum of two hundred pounds shall be extinguished, and the said arrears of interest amounting to two hundred and eight pounds four shillings and sixpence shall be remitted.
