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6. Sixth Report | of tlie [ commissioners of fisheries | of the | State 

 of Maine, | for the year | 1872. | Augusta: | Sprague, Oweu & 

 Nash, printers to tlie State. | 1873. [8vo, 16 pp. J 



7. Seventh report | of the j commissioners of fisheries | of the | State 

 of Maine, | for the year | 1873. | Augusta: | Sprague, Owen & 

 jSTash, printers to the State. ( 1874. [8vo, 39 pp.] 



Note. — A plate represeuting tbe sexual orgaus of the American lobster, drawn 

 by Sidney I. Smith, was loosely inserted in the later issues of this report. 



Maryland.* 



No report on true fishes published yet. 

 Massachusetts. 



[Senate.. No. 193. J Report of commissioners | appointed | under 

 resolve of 1856, chap. 58, | concerning the | artificial propaga- 

 tion of fish, I with I other documents. | — j Boston: | William 

 White, printer to the State. | 1857. [8vo, 1 col. title-page, 54 pp.] 

 Note. — Contains (pp. 19-54) a translation of the article on pisciculture by 

 Jules Hairae from the " Revue des deux mondes," June, 1854. 

 Senate.. No. 8. | = | Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [The report 

 of commissioners, appointed May 3, 1865, "concerning the ob- 

 structions to the passage of fish in the Connecticut and Merri- 

 mack Rivers." Boston, 1866. 8vo, 77 pp., 1 pi. folded.] 



Note. — Without title-page; the title given under the unbracketed caption 

 being repeated from the governor's message transmitting and prefatory 

 to the report. 



1. House.. No. 3 I = I Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ] — | Re- 

 port I of the I commissioners of fisheries. | — | Boston : | Wright 

 & Potter, State printers 1867. [8vo, 7 pp., 1 pi.] 



Note. — The first report of the commissioners of fisheries appointed under chap- 

 ter 238 of the acts of 1866; without separate title page. 



2. House.. No. 60. | = | Report | of the | commissioners of fisher- 

 ies, I for the year ending | January 1, 1868. | — | Boston : | 



*The following special reports on the oyster-fisheries are noteworthy : 



1. Report I upon the | oyster resources | of Maryland | to the | general assem- 

 bly; I ^y I Hunter Davidson, esq., | com. State oyster police force. | — | Annapo- 

 lis: I Wm. Thompson of R., printer. | — | 1870. [8vo, 20 pp.] 



2. Report | on the | oyster fisheries: | Potomac River shad and herring fisheries, | 

 and the water fowl of | Maryland | to his excellency the governor, | and other | 

 commissioners of the State O. P. force, | January, 1872. | — | Annapolis : | S. S. 

 Mills, L. F. Colton &. Co., printers. | 1872. [8vo, 48 pp.] 



3. Report | of the | commander | of the | oyster fisheries and water fowl ] of [ 

 Maryland, | to his excellency the governor, | and the | commissioners of the 

 State O. P. force. | January 1st, 1874. | — | Annapolis : | Wm. T. Iglehart & 

 Company, | printers to the senate. | — | 1873. [8vo, 11 pp.] 



Note. — On cover, dated 1874. 



4. The I oyster law of Maryland. | January session, 1874. | An act to repeal article 

 seventy-one of the code of I public general laws, title | "Oysters," | as amended 

 and re-enacted by chapter three bun- | dred and sixty-four, of the acts passed 

 at Janu- | ary session, eighteen hundred and seventy, | and also chapter one 

 hundred and sixty-seven of the acts passed at the January | session, eighteen 

 hundred and | seventy-two. | — | Annapolis : | S. Sands Mills & L. F. Colton, | 

 printers to the house of delegates. | 1874. [8vo, 13 pp.] 



