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Two Chief Inspectors at a salary of |1,800 per annum each, 

 and 



Four Secret Service Agents at a salary of |1,200 per annum 

 each. 



(3) That for the purposes of the organization and administration 

 of the fisheries and game protective services the Province be subdivided 

 into six districts, approximately as designated in this report; and that 

 an Inspector be placed in each such district, at a salary of |1,500 per 

 annum, whose duty it shall be to study the requirements of the district, 

 plan the organization of the protective services therein on the most 

 economical lines, carry the same into effect under the direction of the 

 chief executive, and be responsible for the adequate supervision of the 

 w ardens and overseers in such district and that their duties are properly 

 performed. 



(4) That as each of the above administrative districts is created, a 

 staff of not less than six men, at a salary of |900 per annum each, be 

 assigned to the District Inspector placed in control of it, and that an 

 increase of the permanent staff of each district to the numerical strength 

 deemed necessary be carried subsequently into effect by the gradual 

 elimination of the underpaid or inefficient officers and the substitution 

 in their place of others, specially selected and duly qualified to discharge 

 the duties the.y will be expected to perform; and that such officers re- 

 ceive remuneration at the rate of |900 per annum, be assigned consid- 

 erably greater territories than those now generally covered by overseers, 

 and be required to devote their whole time and energies to the govern- 

 ment service. 



Acknowledgments. 



Your Commissioner is indebted to all those gentlemen and corpora- 

 tions mentioned in his Interim Report for continued favors and 

 courtesies : 



To Mr. Paul Reighard, of the University of Michigan, for valuable 

 information and the privilege of making use of his maps in this report; 



To Hon. W. E. Meehan, Magistrate W. W. O'Brien, Messrs. J. J. 

 Carrick, M.L.A., W. A. Preston, M.L.A., Dr. Smeddie, M.L.A., H. H. 

 Collier, K.C., George Drewry, John Miner and many other gentlemen for 

 encouragement and advice; 



To Superintendent Joseph Rogers and many of the provincial con 

 stables for courtesies, valuable information and assistance; 



To Crown Timber Agents L. E. Bliss and A. O. Watts for assistance 

 and useful information; 



To Mr. H. J. Bury for services in the Quetico Forest Reserve, for 

 much valuable information and for courteous permission to make use of 

 various photographs in this report; 



To Captain R. Manley Sims, D.S.O., for consistent and conspicuous 

 ability in the discharge of the arduous duties of secretary to this Com- 

 mission. 



