796 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



*' Sec. G. All moneys received for license, herein referred to, except- 

 ing the fees for issuing the same, shall constitute a fund and be exclu- 

 sively applied to the assistance of a hatching house or houses on the 

 said Columbia River or its tributaries. Any person or persons or 

 incorporated company who shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the 

 said lish commissioner that a hatching house or houses has or have 

 been established by such person or persons or company, and have actu- 

 ally hatched salmon with which said Columbia Eiver is or has been 

 stocked and supplied, the said commissioner shall forthwith pay over 

 to such person or persons or company the said funds : Frovided, If there 

 be two or more of such hatching-houses in operation by different per- 

 sons or companies, then such funds shall be distributed jprora/a accord- 

 ing to the number of hatched salmon. 



" Sec. 7. The person or persons making complaint of any violation of 

 the provisions of this act, by the failure to take out a license as herein 

 required, or to do and perform other acts as herein prescribed, shall, 

 upon the conviction of the party accused, be entitled to one-half of the 

 penalty recovered. All tines and penalties hereby or herein imposed 

 shall be enforced and collected as other fines and penalties are by law 

 enforced or collected, and justices of the peace or other officers receiv- 

 ing such fines or penalties, after payment of one-half of such penalty so 

 collected to the complainant, shall forthwith pay the remaining half to 

 the fish commissioner, to be applied to the establishment of or assist- 

 ance of hatching-houses, as provided in section 6 of this act. 



" Sec. 8. The said fish commissioner shall biennially, on the 15th 

 day of September, make a report to the governor to be submitted to the 

 legislative assembly, which report shall exhibit the amount of moneys 

 received from licenses, penalties, and other sources, and how ap[)lied ; 

 the condition, progress, success, &c., of the hatching-houses, hints, sug- 

 gestions, or information on the subject of food-fish propagation, and 

 such matters as may be valuable in legislation for the protection or 

 preservation of food-fishes, and the salmon fisheries of the Columbia 

 Eiver. 



" Sec. 9. No section, proviso, or part of this act shall be considered 

 as valid or operative until the legislature of the State of Oregon shall 

 enact a similar section, proviso, or act, in whole or in part, and from 

 and after the ijassing of such a law by the State of Oregon, such i)arts 

 hereof as shall be so enacted, shall immediately go into full force and 

 effect. And the governor of this Territory is hereby requested to trans- 

 mit an attested copy of this act to the governor of the State of Oregon, 

 requesting him to si^bmit it to the legislature of that State." 



