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the fisheries that the present puhlication would be incomplete 

 indeed if it failed to accord very special tribute to the result 

 of its labours. As a means of officially perpetuating a record 

 of the names of the gentlemen who rendered such signal 

 service, it has been thought fitting to incorporate a copy 

 of the Commission appointing them : — 



Commission. 



yiCTORIA, by the Grrace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. — 



To our trusty and well-beloved — 



The Honorable William Macleat, a Member of our Legislative 

 Council of our Colony of New South "Wales ; James Charles Cox, Esquire, 

 Doctor of Medicine ; The Honorable "William Bede Dallet, Q.C., a 

 Member of our said Legislative Council ; Hekrt Caey Dangak, Esquire, 

 Barrister-at-Law ; Eichakd Dritee, Esquire, a Member of our Legislative 

 Assembly of our said Colony ; James Squire Earnell, Esquire, a Member 

 of our said Legislative Assembly ; Richard Hill, Esquire, one of our 

 Justices of the Peace of our said Colony -, Francis Hixson", Esquire, E.N., 

 President of the Marine Board of our said Colony ; The Honorable Thomas 

 Holt, a Member of our said Legislative Council ; Alexander Oliver, 

 Esquire, Barrister-at-Law ; Edward Pierson Eamsat, Esquire, Curator of 

 the Australian Museum ; Charles Carleton Skarratt, Esquire, a Justice 

 of the Peace of our said Colony ; The Honorable George Thornton, a 

 Member of our said Legislative Council ; and Geobge Frederick "Want, 

 Esquire ; 



Greeting : 



Know ye that "We, reposing great trust and confidence in your ability, 

 zeal, and industry, discretion and integrity, do by these presents authorise 

 and appoint you, or any three or more of you, as hereinafter mentioned, to 

 make a diligent and full investigation into the actual state and prospect of 

 the Fisheries of our said Colony ; the best means of developing and preserving 

 them ; the expediency of encouraging pisciculture, or of supplementing the 

 natural supply by the introduction and acclimatisation of useful foreign 

 species and upon all matters bearing upon the above-mentioned subject : 

 And "We do by these presents give and grant to you, or any three or more 

 of you, at any meeting or meetings to which all of you shall have been duly 

 summoned, full power and authority to call before you all such persons as 

 you may judge necessary, by whom you may be better informed of the truth 

 m the premises, and to require the production of all such books, papers, 

 writings, and all other documents as you may deem expedient, and to visit 

 and inspect the same at the offices or places where the same or any of them 

 may be deposited, and to inquire of the premises by all lawful ways and 

 means : And Our further will and pleasure is that you, or any three or more 

 of you, after due examination of the premises, do and shall, within the space 

 of four months after the date of this our Commission, or sooner if the same 

 can reasonably be, certify to tJs, in the Office of the Colonial Secretary, 

 under your, or any three or more of your hands and seals, what you shall 

 find touching the premises : And A\^e hereby co^nmand all Government 

 Officers and other persons vrhomsoever within our said Colony that they be 



