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applicants will range from 40 cents to 75 cents ; in no case, probably, 

 will it exceed $1. 



(c) Individual messenger shipments only to be resorted to in cases of 

 imminent emergency. Such shipments are not usually satisfactory, 

 and the cost of distribution in proportion to work accomplished is much 

 greater for the Commission than in the methods {a) and (b). 



2. PERSONNEL OF THE WORK. 



For each car, one messenger in charge, two messenger assistants, one 

 cook, and for the field work of distribution one or more distributing 

 agents, as above indicated. 



At central station, there will be needed in addition to the permanent 

 force of the station, one good man to assist in making the shipments 

 and to care for the carp awaiting distribution. 



Each messenger in charge of cars will be charged with all property 

 issued for the equipment or service of his car, and will be responsible 

 for the same, so long as it remains in his possession, and will not be 

 discharged from such liability until the same is returned to the central 

 station and proj^er receipts obtained from store-keeper. 



In addition to a property record he will be required to keep an ac- 

 count of all exi)enditure8 made: (1.) For the subsistence of himself and 

 men ; (2.) For all other expenses ; (3.) The number of miles traveled, and 

 required to report the same from time to time, the several reports cov- 

 ering the whole period of continuous service ; the object being to show 

 the cost per diem per man for subsistence and the miscellaneous ex- 

 penses of the maintenance of car per mile traveled. 



3. ORDER OF DISTRIBUTION. 



It is proposed that the distribution begin first in the New England 

 and extreme Northwestern States, the theater of operations being shifted 

 farther aiid farther to the South as winter approaches, the last work 

 being done in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 



4. PRELIMINARIES TO DISTRIBUTION. 



(«) Shipping-tag made of stout manilla paper, in the form of jacket 

 and containing the return postal receipt. On the tag will be printed the 

 instructions to be observed in transportation, one side being reserved 

 for this, the other for the shipping address. Samples of these and the 

 circulars for express work I have requested Mr. S. C. Brown to ijrepare 

 and have ready to submit to you. 



{b) In all cases where an application is on file in this office, or where 

 distribution is to be made, or lists furnished by State commissioners, 

 it will be necessary, several days prior to sending the fish, to mail a 

 circular giving due notice of the time and manner of shi])ment, so that 

 consignees may have due notice to prepare for and receive their fish. 



Form marked M provides ior this notice, whether delivery is made by 

 messenger or through State commission. This, in conjunction with form 

 N, to be sent to consignee by messenger or xgent, provides for all cases. 



