that our appropriation is vei y limited it is not necessary tor 



me to ask you to make tliese arrangments on as economical a 



scale as consistent with efficiency. I have the lionor to he 



very respectfully, 



Your ohedicnt servant, 



T. B. Ferguson, 



Commissioner of Fisheries, 



As it was thouglit that fSetli Green's liatching hox was 

 covered hy letters patent, and was the only one adapted to 

 shad hatching in our waters, your Commissioners deemed 

 it advisable to have a conference witli the inventor in liopes 

 that he would modify the terms on which he had offered the 

 use of his boxes ro tlie States, two thousand dollars in cash, 

 royalty for tiieir use for three years. We were unable to ob- 

 tain more favorable terms than tlie fdlowing propositions: 



^^ Proposed mcmorondiuii of agreement beticeen tlie NaryJand 

 Commissioners of Fisheries, and Seth Green of Roclitstcr, 

 New York, for liatclring shad in MaryJand during the spawn- 

 ing season of 1874. 



Seth Green agrees to furnish the necessary labor for 

 manipulating the hsh and the necessary implements and 

 equipments, and perform all the. work connected therewitli 

 during the spawning season for shad, furnish the necessary 

 transportation for, and board the men employed by him 

 for two camps, one on the Patuxent river, and one on 

 one of the rivers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The 

 Commissioners of Fisheries for Maryland, agree to furnish 

 the fish as taken at the several camps to Seth Green to be 

 manipulated for spawn, and agree to pay to Seth Green eleven 

 hundred dollars, one-half of the amount, being five liundred 

 and fifty dollars, to be paid when the camps are established, 

 and the other one-half, being five hundred and fifty dollars, 

 to be paid at the close of the season."' 



The second proposition submitted by Seth Green, was that 

 the Commissioners of Fisheries should pay to him, six hundred 

 and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents for the right to use his 

 boxes, for one year, and two dollars per diem for men to operate 

 them, the Maryland Commissioners to pay all expenses of trans- 

 portation and board. After coiisultation with the IT. S, 



