more abundant results. The last Legislature lias made an 

 appropriation of $8,500 for a fish-car for fish hatching and 

 fish distribution, and this, it is also believed, will mate- 

 rially aid our work in this department. 



The prospects for the future work of the Commission in 

 fish propagation and in stocking streams are excellent, and 

 great results will certainly be obtained. 



In the department of fish protection the Commission has 

 been most successful. The Legislature of 1888 provided 

 for the aj^pointment of a corjDs of fish and game protectors 

 for the State, and created an executive head, to be knoAvn 

 as the Chief Game and Fish Protector, all of whom are 

 aj)pointed by and subject to the Fish Commission. This is 

 what the State most needed, and the enforcement of the 

 fish and game laws has been much more thorough and 

 satisfactory. 



During the year ending September 30, 1889, 180 suits 

 for penalties were successfully prosecuted, the receipts 

 from fines amounting to $4,104 51. 



The work this year has been even more successful, and 

 the results have been most gratifying. At the last session 

 of the Legislature the Commission succeeded in having 

 passed an act for a commission to revise and codify the 

 game-laws of the State. This commission will consist of 

 one member from the Fish Commission, one from the 

 Society for the Preservation of Game, and one Deputy 

 Attorney- General of the State. The work of this Commis- 

 sion Avill be most important, and the presentation by them 

 to the Legislature and the subsequent adoption of a con- 

 cise and consistent code of game-laws will do a great deal 

 towards securing the successful and vigorous protection of 

 game and fish. 



In the department of oyster culture great jDrogress has 

 been made, although the first surveys are not yet finished ; 

 261 franchises have been issued and $4,520 in fees have 

 been paid into the State Treasury. 



