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and compelling dealers who are handling any game from outside the State during 

 tlie open season to keep a record and be ready at all times when a proper demand 

 is made to furnish an invoice of all game received or sold. 



7. Repealing all supervisor laws on Long Island relating to fish and shellfish. 

 The Legislature should enact laws for that locality as it does for other parts of the 

 State. By reason of the fact that the supervisors have been legislating independ- 

 ently since 1849, their laws have become confused, and in recent years to my certain 

 knowledge they have not conformed to the State law. There is no question but 

 that a majority of their present laws are in such a confused condition th,at they 

 cannot be enforced, notwithstanding the fact that this department is called upon 

 frequent!}- to prosecute under those laws. Several years ago the Legislature 

 empowered all the boards of supervisors throughout the State to pass laws further 

 restricting the taking of fish and game. Each county availed itself of this, and 

 matters became so mixed up that, in 1S95, the Legislature at the request of the 

 general public repealed the law, except as to the power given to the counties of 

 Long Island in relation to the taking of fish and shellfish from salt water. 



J. WARREN POND, 



Cliiff Protector. 



CURIOSITY — WHA-I' IS TH.\T> 



