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sent the following summary of their present position 

 and requirements. 



1. As to MONEY. Of the appropriations respec- 

 tively of 7,000 dollars and of 10,000 dollars, there will 

 probably remain subject to their draft, at the close of 

 this year, about 10,500 dollars. During the next 

 year there will be needed, for the prompt erection of 

 the great fish way at Holyoke, a sum of 15,000 to 

 1 7,000 dollars, and for the important attempts in the 

 artificial breeding offish, on a large scale, not less than 

 5,000 dollars, or a total of 22,000 dollars. As there 

 will doubtless be over 10,000 dollars on hand to begin 

 with, a further appropriation of 12,000 dollars ought 

 to suffice. 



2. As to LAWS. Those now in force seem enough ; 

 and it only remains for this Commonwealth to com- 

 ply with the condition made by Connecticut in the 

 law passed by her last Assembly, by which the taking 

 of shad in the Connecticut River is forbidden, except 

 between the 15th of March and the 15th of June, 

 and between sunrise of Monday morning and sunset 

 of Saturday evening; and further, that no salmon 

 shall be taken before March 15th, 1872; all, how- 

 ever, on condition that Massachusetts shall impose 

 the same limitations of time. The Commissioners 

 therefore recommend that these restrictions be ex- 

 tended to that part of the Connecticut River lying 

 within the limits of this Commonwealth, provided 

 that the fish commissioners be allowed to take all fish 

 needed to re-stock this or any other waters of the 

 Commonwealth. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



THOMAS LYMAN, 

 ALFRED R. FIELD, 



Commissioners. 



