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to those companies, deeming it better to await the decision 

 of the courts, in reference to the case of the next dams 

 above Columbia." 



II. 

 "HARRISBURG, December 18th 1867. 



" SIR : Having been re-appointed by your Excellency 

 to the position of Commissioner, under the Act of March 

 30th 1866, relating to the passage of fish in the Susque- 

 hanna and its tributaries, I have the honor to submit the 

 following report : 



" The passage for fish constructed in the Columbia dam, 

 and described in my last report, I have every reason to 

 believe is a success. 



"It is notorious that shad have been caught of the very 

 finest quality and in respectable numbers as high above the 

 Columbia dam as Newport, on the Juniata. 



" The numbers actually taken, during the past season, 

 between Columbia and the Juniata, are variously estimated 

 at from ten to fifteen or eighteen thousand, by men in whom 

 full reliance can be placed. 



" In my last year's report to Governor Curtin, I stated 

 that the various companies owning the lower dams on the 

 Susquehanna and its tributaries were duly notified, accord- 

 ing to law, of what was required of them, under the act, 

 and that no company had responded except the Susque- 

 hanna Canal Company, who had complied with the act to 

 my satisfaction, by the construction of the designated weir. 



" I laid information, strictly in accordance with the act, 

 against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who, at that 



