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season. Other synonyms equally startling will, I think, be established 

 as the study of the Pacific coast salmon progresses. 



I must not close this report without expressing my appreciation of the 

 invaluable assistance which was rendered this enterprise on the Clacka- 

 mas River by Louis Barin, esq., mayor of Oregon City. From the begin- 

 ning of the work to the end Mr. Barin has been a stanch and efiBcient 

 friend of the undertaking, and has spared no pains and no exertion to 

 help it on, and it is hardly overstating the matter to say that without 

 his very efficient help our operations on the Clackamas could not have 

 been made nearly as successful as they were this season. 



The Oregon and Washington Fish Propagating Company intend to 

 resume their labors next year at the Clackamas hatching-station, and 

 to continue them indefinitely. This they will undoubtedly be able to do 

 by means of the revenue which they expect to derive from State licenses 

 of seines, drift-nets, traps, boats, and other implements used for the 

 capture of salmon in the Columbia River. Washington Territory, which 

 borders on the north bank of the Columbia, has already passed a bill 

 providing for such licenses, a copy of which is here presented, and with- 

 out doubt the legislature of Oregon will pass a similar bill at its next 

 session this fall (1878). 



The following is the act passed by the legislature of Washington Ter- 

 ritory to encourage the establishment of salmon-hatching houses on the 

 waters of the Columbia River: 



[H. B. 118, substitute for H. B. 107.] 



"Section 1. Be it enacted,, (fee. That a fish commissioner for the 

 Columbia River and its tributary waters be appointed by the governor, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the council, who shall hold his 

 otiBce for two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, 

 who shall be a resident of one of the counties bordering upon the said 

 river. Said commissioner shall exercise a general supervision over the 

 fisheries of said river within this Territory, consider and report upon 

 the introduction, production, and culture of food-fish, especially the sal- 

 mon, CO operate with the fish commission of the State of Oregon, make 

 report to the legislative assembly at each biennial session thereof, as 

 hereinafter more particularly prescribed, and perform such other duties 

 as may be hereinafter imposed. Before entering upon his duties he 

 shall execute a bond to the Territory of Washington, with two or more 

 sureties, to be approved by the judge of the second judicial district, in 

 the sum of $10,000, conditioned for the faithful performance of his official 

 duties and the disbursement according to law of all money coming into 

 his hands. Said commissioner may appoint deputies, not to exceed one 

 for each county bordering upon said Columbia River, for whose action 

 he shall be responsible upon his official bond. 



"Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful to take or fish for salmon for traffic, 

 barter, or sale in the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries 



