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so it should be the special business of the State and Province to see that this work 

 is carried on. If you can secure help from any other quarter you should accept 

 it, and accept it willingly; but I believe it will require the united efforts of ail to 

 bring it back speedily. There is no reason wt^ the State of New York, with two 

 hatcheries established upon the borders of Ontario, the Province of Ontario with 

 as many, and the general government giving you all the assistance it can, you 

 should not be able to put into this lake five hundred millions of fry each year. 

 Urge this matter upon your legislature and upon your parliament, and then secure 

 all the assistance you are able to from wherever it may come, A hatching station 

 capable of producing from sixty to eighty millions of fry will not cost the State 

 more than six to eight thousand dollars, and the expense of maintenance would 

 not exceed that for each year, and if this appropriation could be obtained it would 

 be money well invested. 



I hope that every single State bordering upon the great lakes will take up thi 

 matter with renewed interest, and will devote a suitable sum as its share to the 

 general contribution ; and I hope that congress in its liberality will devote as 

 large an appropriation as it may deem desirable to aid us in this work. It is the 

 waste of a hundred years or more that we must overcome, and with these possi- 

 bilities before us it is our duty to make these great waters as prolific a source of 

 food supply as the lands which surround them. I sincerely trust that I shall live 

 to see the day when every spawning tish taken from the waters of the great 

 lakes shall have her eggs fertilized, artificially hatched, and placed in the waters 

 again. I move the adoption of the resolution. 

 The resolution was adopted. 



Secretary STEWART : I have here another resolution that reads as follows : 

 " Resolved, Further, that this body earnestly approves of the action of Con- 

 gress in making an appropriation for the establishment of a hatching station on 

 or near the St. Lawrence river, for the propagation of whitefish and other com- 

 mercial fish : and of the purpose of the United States Fish Commissioner to carry 

 out the provisions of that appropriation ; and we see nothing in this movement 

 that can in any degree interfere with the jurisdiction of the States in the premises, 

 or affect in any way unfavourably the work of the States in the protection, 

 multiplication and distribution of valuable food fishes." 



The adoption of the resolution was moved by Mr. Amsden, seconded by Mr. 

 Whitaker, and carried. 



Secretary STEWART : The next resolution is as follows : 

 " Resolved, That if a practical agreement can be had in regard to the pro- 

 visions of laws for the regulation of the fisheries of the international waters, it is 

 nevertheless not practicable by reason of the differences in territorial extent and 

 mode of legislative procedure, to settle upon precise statutory provisions in relation 

 thereto, which shall apply to all ; and therefore it is recommended that each 

 Dominion, Province, and State representation make such recommendation touching 

 its particular jurisdiction as shall apply to the case ; leaving it to each represen- 

 tative to frame the matter into law according to the forms and circumstances , 

 for the action of the proper legislative body." 



The adoption of the resolution was moved by Mr. Stewart, seconded by l)r 

 MacCallum, and carried. 



Secretary STEWART : The last resolution on my list was moved by Mr. Ford, 

 and reads as follows : 



" Resolved, That we recommend to the fish commissioners of Canada the 

 adoption of the following resolution for the St. Lawrence river, viz : That we ask 



