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REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



signed to private residences. In some cases sufficient evidence was 

 secured to obtain convictions; in others, the shippers had covered their 

 tracks by using fictitious names, but were penalized to the extent of 

 losing their goods. There being no statute providing for the destruc- 

 tion of the hides, they were disposed of to tanneries, and the proceeds 

 deposited in the Game Preservation Fund. 



About 111 dozen quail, 175 dozen ducks, 30 dozen doves, and snipe, 

 grouse, pheasants, and venison in small lots were distributed among 

 the hospitals, the orphan asylums, and old people's charity homes of 

 San Francisco. The Little Sisters of the Poor, the Almshouse, the 

 Protestant, Hebrew, and Catholic orphan asylums were among the 

 beneficiaries. From all of these institutions we have received most 

 grateful letters of acknowledgment. 



FISH CASES. 



S%immari/ of Anrsln made by Deputies of the Fish Commission, and Disposition of Cases, 



for Two Years ending August 31, 1904. 



