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in case fisliAvays are erected to provide their passage over the 

 Great Falls of the Potomac, and other obstructions on the 

 Potomac and Gunpowder, we transported and turned into 

 the Potomac, at Piedmont, some sixty thousand young shad, 

 and into the Gunpowder, near Cockeyesville, some thirty 

 thousand. Should efficient fish ways he erected, the survivors 

 will return to the upper waters of these streams when adults 

 for the purpose of spawning, and they will become plentiful- 

 ly stocked with this and other anadromous fishes. 



As the appropriation did not admit of our establishing more 

 than two hatching camps for shad, we sought the aid of the 

 U. S. Commissioner on the Potomac River, that we might 

 devote the means at our disposal to tliose rivers, entirely 

 within the limits of the State. Prof. Baird generously agreed 

 to furnish the men and means to operate two hatching stations 

 on the Potomac. To enable us to select proper localities, and 

 make the necessary jircliminary examinations, he secured 

 from the Secretary of the Kavy, the detail of the U. S. 

 Steamtug Triana, L. S. Cook, commanding, and invited the 

 Commissioners for Virginia, just appointed, to accompany us. 

 On the 29th of April we sailed from llie Washington Navy 

 Yard, Prof. J. W. Milner, Dep. U. S. Commissioner, repre- 

 senting Prof. Baird; Mr. T. B. Ferguson, the Maryland 

 Commission; and Messrs. Robertson and Moseley, that of 

 Virginia. We examined the fisheries on the Potomac, and 

 then ascended the Patuxent, as far as Bristol, examining the 

 fisheries on that river. We found Freestone Point,, lying be- 

 tween Powell's and Neabsco Creeks, admirably adapted for 

 shad hatching; being an excellent shad fisliery, the ripe fish 

 apparently selecting tlie extensive fiats at this point for 

 spawning, and Powell's Creek furnishing a safe harbor for 

 the hatching boxes, jirotected as they would be from the north 

 and north-west winds. The railroad, with a regular station 

 at the creek, furnishing easy communication with Washing- 

 ton. It was therefore decided to commence operations at that 

 point, having obtained permission from Mr. Jacob Faunce, 

 to procure tlie spawn iVoni the ripe fish taken in his seine. 

 Moxley's Point was also selected as a suitable htcatit)n for a 

 second camp. This fi.slicry is located at the mouth of the 

 Fiscaiawav Creel:, and o!)erate'.l by J. Skidinere. The sue- 



