T^EI^OI^'T 



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OF 



To his Excellency, John Lee Careoll, 



Governor of State of Maryland : 



Appointed by your Excellency to succeed myself as a Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, I beg leave to make the following 

 report of the work accomplished during the year of 1876 : 



As much of the efficiency of the Commission is dependent 

 upon the co-operation of the various railroad and steamboat 

 corporations in the State, and as much of the success attained 

 is attributable in a great measure to facilities rendered by 

 them for the quick, and in many instances gratuitous, trans- 

 portation of young fish from and to various points in the 

 State, we beg leave to return our acknowledgements to the 

 following gentlemen for the aid given us during the year : 

 Vice-Presidents John King and William Keyser, of the Balti- 

 more and Ohio Railroad, and Thomas E. Sharp, master of 

 Transportation on the same road ; President J. H. Hood, of 

 the Western Maryland Railroad ; President Oden Bowie, of 

 the Baltimore and Potomac ; Mr. George C. Wilkins, Super- 

 intendent of the Northern Central Railroad, and of the Balti- 

 more and Potomac Railroad; President Isaac Hinckley, of the 

 Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad; President 

 Howard B, Ensign, of the Maryland Steamboat Company ; 



