nSlIKRIES, GAME AND FORESTS. IO3 



The examination of the siiellfish account was afterwards completed, and a state- 

 ment of the condition of that account was submitted January 13, 1896. A report on 

 the maintenance account will be found herein. 



In addition to the examination of these accounts I was required to copy them for 

 the information and use of your Commission ; and to make copies of all papers on 

 file in the Comptroller's office belonging to the accounts of your department. 



The work is fully completed. All the items of the several accounts under the 

 various appropriations, including cash advances, vouchers rendered, ascertained 

 .shortages, amounts paid in settlement thereof and amounts remaining unpaid to date, 

 have been entered in books provided by your Commission for that purpose. Copies 

 of all abstracts, vouchers and sub-vouchers covering all disbursements on these 

 accounts from June 1889, to July, 1895, have been prepared and are now among the 

 files of your office. 



I was also required to prepare for the use of the Assembly a statement of the 

 transactions of the shellfish department of your Commission from January, 1888, to 

 February, 1895, ^^ pc resolution of that body, adopted F"ebruary 4, 1896. The 

 preparation of this statement consumed fifteen days' time, and the completed report 

 comprised thirty-six pages of statistics of the shellfish department. 



I have been requested to submit, at this time, an additional and final report, which 

 shall contain a summary of previous reports and any important facts in regard to these 

 accounts not heretofore presented. 



The accounts examinetl at the Comptroller's office are the following: 



Hatchery maintenance account, from September i, 1894, to May 31, 1895. 

 General maintenance account, from June, 1889, to June 12, 1895. 



Also the accounts created under the following appropriations : 



Appropriation, $7,750, for shad hatching, surveying, etc., chapter 726, Laws 

 of 1893. 



Appropriation, $5,000, for construction of Sullivan County Hatchery, chapter 362, 

 Laws of 1893. 



Appropriation, $5,000, for construction of Steuben County Hatchery, chapter 39, 

 Laws of 1893. 



Appropriation, $1,500, for shad hatching, surveying, etc., chapter 35S, Laws 

 of 1894. 



Appropriation, $500, for transportation and distribution of black bass, chapter 

 758, Laws of 1894. 



Appropriation, $1,500, for hatchery maintenance, chapter 358, Laws of 1894. 



