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sentences of said district courts as is now provided in law in other erimi- 
nal cases. 
Sec. 11. Sections 8, 9, and 10 of Chapter 173 of the General Laws, enti- 
tled ‘‘Of Certain Fisheries,”’ and also Chapter 316 of the Public Laws, and 
all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
Your commission has endeavored to enforce the law in regard 
to the taking of short lobsters and egg lobsters. Several deputies 
were appointed to act in this capacity—two of them residing in 
Newport, one in Little Compton, and one at Narragansett Pier. 
It has been the policy of the commission, acting through their 
deputies, to prevent the violation of the law, as far as possible, with- 
out antagonizing the interests of the fishermen, and consequently 
arrests have been made and prosecutions instituted only in those 
cases where this expedient seemed to be absolutely necessary. It 
is the opinion of the commission, obtained from conversation 
with the deputies, lobster dealers, and the fishermen themselves, 
that the attempt to enforce this measure has been as successful as 
could be expected, and that very many thousand short lobsters 
have been returned to the water. 
XI. PREPARATION OF AN EXHIBIT FOR THE PAN-AMERICAN EXHIBI- 
TION. 
At the request of the Pan-American Commission of the State of 
Rhode Island that the Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fish- 
eries should be represented in the exhibition, a series of collec- 
tions was especially prepared to illustrate the results of the 
systematic investigation which your commission has conducted 
on the natural history of the marine food animals of the State. 
The exhibit was neatly installed in the Agricultural Building as 
a State exhibit. Much credit is due to Mr. A. G. Delaney, who 
had immediate charge of the installation. The expense of in- 
stalling and of returning the collection was borne by the Pan- 
American Commission, to whom as a whole, and to Mr. George N. 
