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ion creating a game and fish commission, that should 

 be constitutional officers, and the}' should be vested 

 with the power to pass upon all game laws, so that 

 their veto should kill any act that the Legislature might 

 pass, in case the commission should deem it an im- 

 practicable act. I believe that is the only way in 

 which we will ever get a uniform and certain and a 

 constant game law throughout the states. It is better, 

 even, to have a bad law, and have it well understood 

 and certain, than to have a good law that is constantly 

 shifting and changing. 



With that end in view, I offer this resolution, in 

 order to get the sense of this Association upon the 

 subject, because this Association, representing, as it 

 does, the different states, is the only Association whose 

 opinions will go throughout the different states, and 

 whose opinions will have force. It was with that in- 

 tention that I drew this resolution: 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this Society that 

 each state should provide in its Constitution for a Fish 

 and Game Commission, and should also provide that 

 no law should be passed permitting, prohibiting, or 

 regulating the catching of fish or game without the 

 approval of such Fish and Game Commission, 



The President : Gentlemen, 3'ou have heard the 

 resolution offered by Mr. E. Whitaker. Is it sec- 

 onded? 



Mr. Thompson : I second the resolution. 



Dr. B. W. James : I ask the gentleman whether 

 he intends in this resolution that he offers that the 

 Commission shall include both the fish and game 

 laws ? 



Mr. Whitaker : I think so ; yes, sir. 



Dr. James : We have in our State Legislature iu 

 Penns3'lvania a committee called the Fish and Game 



