INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. 



Having heard early in the year, that a Special Commission had been issued 

 by the State of New York to codify the Fish and Game Laws of that State, your 

 Commissioners put themselves in correspondence with the members of the above 

 mentioned Special Commission, with a view to arranging a joint meeting, at which 

 the matter of the assimilation of the Game and Fish Laws of the States and Pro- 

 vinces bordering upon one another, could be discussed. 



Acting upon the suggestion contained in the appended letter : 



COURT HOUSE, 



HAMILTON, ONTARIO, 



Jan. 17th, 1891. 



Hon. Richard U. Sherman, Utica, N. Y. : 



DEAR SIR, I notice from paragraphs in various American papers that the 

 Game Commission of New York State is about to report and recommend a bill 

 drafted for the purpose of codifying the Game laws. 



I write this note to inform you that a Fish and Game Commission has just 

 been issued by the local government in the Province of Ontario to inquire into 

 the best manner of preserving the game in the Province, and strictly enforcing 

 the laws. Would you kindly let me know as soon as possible whether your 

 Commission has yet reported? If it has done so I should take it as a very great 

 favour if you would send me a few copies of the report or proposed bill. If, on the 

 other hand, no report has yet been made, and the Commission intends to have a 

 final meeting, would ib be possible to arrange for an interview between your 

 board and ours, for the purpose of discussing reciprocal legislation in the matter 

 of Game and Fish protection, and also to give us an opportunity of enquiring thor- 

 oughly into your laws ? The which, I need not say, would be of the highest ad- 

 vantage to us. 



Yours truly, 



A. D. STEWART, 

 Secretary Ontario Game and Fish Commission. 



Senator McNaughton introduced this resolution in the Assembly : 

 Resolved, If the Assembly concur, that the Commission appointed in pur- 

 suance of Chapter ninety-nine of the Laws of the State of New York of eighteen 

 hundred and ninety, consisting of Gen. R U. Sherman, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 

 and Hon. Edward G. Whittaker, for the purpose of revising and codifying the 

 game and fish laws of the State of New York, be continued until such time as 

 will enable them to confer with the Fish Commission which has been appointed 



