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upon to pass joint laws, it cannot be looked upon as a 

 certainty that they will always maintain them, when it 

 is found that the interests of one state comes into 

 apparent opposition to those of its neighbors which 

 border on the same waters. Hence, is seen the proof 

 of the positive requirement of good conjoint laws. 

 They must not be too restrictive upon one territory, 

 not be too lenient with another, and yet they must be 

 of such a nature as to be the means of adding many 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars of increased revenue, 

 to each state interested, to the already present value of 

 the food fish industr}^ 



Another view to take of this very important subject 

 is the probabilit}^ that when the people of these states 

 are more enlightened upon the subject, and take the 

 matter into practical consideration, each state will be 

 willing to co-operate, knowing that self-interest alone 

 cannot make the best laws for all. This subject must 

 naturally arouse some doubt in the minds of legislators 

 of neighboring states, when each state is allowed to 

 legislate onl}^ in its own way upon that which is truly 

 a mutual affair. 



The dissatisfaction that will surely exhibit itself in 

 making inter-state laws, at first, will soon melt away 

 before the proofs of the success of such agreements. 



The increased number and value of the food fishes 

 which have been hatched in the different authorized 

 fish hatcheries through the country, the fry from 

 which have been deposited in rivers in many parts of 

 different states, show the value of the plan too plainly 

 to ever allow it to fall into disuse, but when the spawn- 

 ing fish are so protected that they also will produce 

 more largel}^, the industry will once more become 

 peculiarly lucrative, not onl}^ to individuals, but to 

 states and the country. 



Wealth always begets wealth if properly directed, 

 and our state governments are not so rich as to be 



