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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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made a duty of citizenship it still lacks the great essential to its prom- 

 ised utility, namely, the ability to procure conclusive proof; for this as 

 a rule can be brought by the injured party alone, and often not by him, 

 a thing of which the police records can furnish abundant examples. I 

 cannot see that an inspection by the people, that is to say, organized 

 in the manner proposed, can make any change in the existing state of 

 things, because there is now just as little want of injunction and warn- 

 ing as of announcements. On the contrary, tlie result of it will i^roba- 

 bly be that when either a- single trade or people from a particular dis- 

 trict are present in a large majority in most of the stations they will 

 tyrannize over those more weakly represented. So far as I have learned, 

 the plan is based upon an opinion of certain people, but I think that 

 where such is found it involves the idea of self-management, while in the 

 legal method is found no trace of such an idea beyond the formal con- 

 dition that there shall be a choice. 



The inspection imposed in all 152 fines. The nature of the offenses is 

 set forth in the annexed table III, which also contains a statement of 

 the fines imposed by the inspection during the last five years. The 

 number of fines this year is somewhat smaller than that of last year. 

 The diminution occurs especially in transgressions of section 10, which 

 is because of the fact that the fines were all imposed for individual in- 

 fractions of one portion of that section; also in transgressions of sec- 

 tion 11, which is for the reason that there was only one fishing-sea, and 

 its limits were better known than last year when this division first took 

 place. 



The matter of making arrests (page 13 in the report for 1879) and of 

 authority for sending vagrants to a house of correction (same report, 

 pages 74 and 75) will probably be decided in the course of the year. 



Table III. 



Oflfenses. 



Fines, total 



These consisted of: 



For disturbing the peace, § 6 



For breaking the harbor regulations, § 7 



For fishing without boat-marks, 5 9 



For fishing too early or too late, § 10 



For setting in unlawful waters, § 11 , 



For sabbath breaking, J 12 



For throwing out ballast, § 13 



For sailing in spite of warning, § 15 



For improper clearance, § 16 



For sailing on a holiday, § 19 



For improper treatment of rescued gear. 



For violation of health regulations 



For unlawful sale of whisky 



For unlawful sale of beer and wine 



For unlawful sale of other articles 



Number of fines received or imposed. 



1876. 1877. 1 1878. 



Fines received by amicable arrangement in piivato matters. 

 Private matters otherwise treated, which are on the record . 



334 



9 



213 



10 



18 

 162 



n97 



24 



3 



2 



104 



25 

 1 



2fl 



252 



188 



20 

 257 



I 

 1879. 1880. 



182 



20 



428 



152 



13 

 368 



■ Includes for shooting eider duck, 6. 



