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very expert and devoted fishermen, were at this meeting 

 proposed, and suspending old rules, as inoperative under 

 the new dynasty, were elected members. 



On a report received, of the dilapidated state of the 

 long abandoned Castle, Navy and Dock Yard, a commit- 

 tee of four persons, viz. Messrs. Hewes, Nicholas, Scull 

 and Roberts, were appointed to have all thoroughly re- 

 paired, and to supply all deficiencies of Furniture in the 

 Castle. 



Mr. Francis was appointed Treasurer and Secretary, 

 and it was resolved unanimously, 



"That the sum of twenty shillings, /^m6e7• specie, be 

 collected from each of the members, to defray the expen- 

 ses of the ensuing year. 



The meeting of business then adjourned. 



It is remarkable, and worthy of notice here, that the 

 first public legislative act of the general assembly of the 

 State of Pennsylvania, and yet existing as a law in force, 

 was passed in this month, when the first meeting, was con- 

 vened since the War; It is entitled, 



A further Supplement to the act, entitled, "An act 

 for making the river navigable, and for the preservation 

 of the fish in the said river." 



Its provisiins prohibited the injurious prevailing prac- 

 tice in those times of driving the river with brush-nets, or 

 other like device, under the penalty of twenty pounds, and 

 fifty pounds, for obstructing any person in their removal. 



And by another provision afterwards repealed, no per 



