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Sec. i6. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the precedino^ sec- 

 tions are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 17. This act shall take effect on and after the day after its rati- 

 fication. 



Ratified tliis, the 28th day of February, A. D., 1887. 



SALMON IN THE HUDSON. 



Mr. Mather said that most of the members were aware that 

 he had been hatching and planting salmon in the Hudson on ac- 

 count of the U. S. Fish Commission; that these fish had reap- 

 peared on the third and fourth years after planting. The first 

 deposit was made in the spring of 1882, and many had been taken 

 last year, also some this season which had been recorded in the 

 pages of Forest and Stream and other papers. 



The following letter bearing upon this subject, had just been 

 received from Hon. Franklin M. Danaher of Albany, a gentle- 

 man well known as taking great interest in the protection of 

 game, aud who is the counsellor for the Eastern New York Fish 

 and Game Protective Association. 



Judge Danaher writes as follows : 



Mr. Fred. Mather, Cold Spring Harbor. A'. Y. 



Mv dear sir: A friend of mine, now in my office, tells me 

 that he saw three small salmon (the largest estimated at six 

 pounds) taken in a net yesterday above the dam at Troy, and 

 near the lock wliich does not exceed one hundred feet above the 

 dam. They evidently had come in this lock which had just 

 been emptied. The fish were returned to the water. The in- 

 formation is reliable and I thought it would please you to know 

 it. If they were true salmon' What do you think of it? 

 He knows of (jthers taken last week just below the dam. 



Yours, F. M. Danaher. 



