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back to the place at which the offence was committed. Your Commissioners- 

 further recommend that in the event of the establishment of a permanent 

 Game and Fish Commission, the members of the said Commission should be made- 

 magistrates under the Game Act for the purpose of taking evidence on oath and 

 trying cases brought before their notice from time to time. 



Your Commissioners unanimously and very strongly recommend the forma- 

 tion of a Provincial Game Park, in which protection could be afforded to the 

 Game and fur-bearing animals of Ontario. Your Commissioners are of opinion 

 that the establishment ot such a preserve would be the best means of re-stocking 

 the Province. 



The preserve should, however, be Provincial in its character, and under the 

 control of the Government and not in private hands. 



The thanks of your Commissioners are due and are hereby tendered kT all 

 those who have assisted them in their work. 



To the members of the Fish Commissions of the States of Michigan, New 

 York, and Pennsylvania ; the members of the Special Commission on the codifica- 

 tion of the New York Game and Fish Laws ; to Mr. Frank J. Amsden, of Roch- 

 ester ; Mr. W. P. Lett, of Ottawa ; Mr. Richard Lancefield, Librarian of the Public 

 Library, Hamilton ; Mr. A. G. Yat*-s, President of the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pitts- 

 burg Railway, Rochester; Dr. H. M. Smith, of the U.S. Fish Commission; Mr. C. 

 B. Reynolds of New ^ork City ; and Professor F. W. True, Curator of Mammals in 

 the National Museum at Washington, D. C., through whose courtesy many of the 

 photographs of the animals illustrated have been obtained, especial thanks are 

 due for very great courtesy shown to your Commissioners and very material 

 assistance rendered. 



Your Commissioners also desire to record their appreciation of the courtesy 

 shown to them by the Mayors and Corporations of the various cities and towns- 

 in which meetings were held, for the use of the public buildings placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose of taking evidence. 



Visits were paid by yolir Commissioners, during the course of their work to 

 the State Fish Hatcheries of Michigan and New York, the former being inspected 

 on the 14th January, 1891, and the latter on llth November, 1891. 



Both these famous Hatcheries are so well known as to require little in the 

 way of description. 



The visits to the New York Hatchery at Caledonia, N.Y., was made under 

 particularly favourable circumstances, at the close of the International conference 

 on Game and Fi^-h, held at Rochester, when your Commissioners were accompanied 

 by many of the leading authorities on Fish Culture, under direction of Mr. Mon- 

 rce E. Green, the Superintendent of the Hatchery. 



