PUBLIC DOCUMENT- -No. 25. 15 



Education. - - (1) Training of school children, especially the 

 Boy Scouts, to appreciate the necessity of preserving our wild 



life. 



(2) Encouragement of the formation of more fish and game 

 associations in the State, to serve as clearing houses for ideas, 

 and to guide local activities in all matters which make for the 

 improvement of conditions. 



(3) Impressing upon the public the value of eating more fish 

 and shellfish as bearing on the high cost of living. 



(4) Bringing about a proper understanding by sportsmen of 

 the rights of landowners and the elimination of damage to 

 property and unbecoming conduct in the field. 



Legislative Recommendations. - - The Board of Commissioners 

 on Fisheries and Game respectfully recommend the passage of 

 laws designed to accomplish the following purposes :- 



(1) To provide for the punishment of persons assaulting or 

 interfering \vith officers enforcing the fish and game laws. 



(2) To provide for the control by the Commissioners of 

 certain Great Ponds for the purpose of cultivating useful fish, 

 birds and quadrupeds. 



(3) To amend chapter 118, Acts of 1911, relative to the 

 penalty for violation of the provisions of said chapter. 



(4) Providing a penalty for the violation of chapter 542, 

 Acts of 1913. 



(5) Amending section 133 of chapter 91 of the Revised Laws 

 relative to the discharge of waste materials into public waters. 



(6) Amending chapter 270, Acts of 1913, relative to gray 

 squirrels. 



(7) Amending section 8, chapter 92, Revised Laws, as 

 amended by Acts of 1903, chapter 330, relative to the use of 

 the bodies or feathers of certain birds for millinery purposes. 



(8) Amending section 67, chapter 91, Revised Laws, as 

 amended by chapter 329, Acts of 1904, relative to pickerel. 



(9) To amend chapter 118, Acts of 1907, relative to loons 

 and grebes. 



(10) Amending chapter 465, Acts of 1912, relative to the 

 appointment of town wardens. 



(11) Authorizing the Commissioners on Fisheries and Game 

 to take or receive as a gift, or lease or purchase in the name of 



