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it seems to me voiir resolutions committee should prepare resolu- 

 tions along' those lines, to be adopted by this society, requesting 

 the boards of the several states interested to introduce at the 

 next session of their respective legislatures a law ceding this 

 right to the federal government. As I understand it, the federal 

 government is perfectly willing to enact these laws and sec that 

 they are rigidly enforced, Init of course they can't take the ini- 

 tiative. The states must do it themselves. I think it would go 

 a long way, if this l)ody would adopt resolutions, and it seems to 

 me that would be a proper step for your resolutions committee 

 to take. 



Mr. Mathewson : Mr. President, I would like to see some 

 thing done on that line. We are certainly in a position in Con- 

 necticut where we cannot get anything of that sort from our own 

 legislature. The pound men are too strong for us, and it is only 

 a wonder to me that any of the shad get up through the river 

 at all. Between the pounds and the gillers at the mouth of the 

 river, I have often wondered how any shad get through. And 

 if it could be done by the federal government, I should like to see 

 it done. 



Mr. Dwight Lydell, Comstock Park, :\Iich. : Mr. Clark said 

 he had no trouble in penning up the male shad, and Mr. Meehan 

 also, and the gentlemen back here say they have no trouble in 

 getting female shad. Perhaps they could get at it by penning u]i 

 just the males. 



Mr. Meehan : We had all the males we wanted, generally 

 speaking. 



Mr. Lydell : He said fenuiles. 



Mr. Meehan : That was his experience. He had no trouble 

 about the nmles. 



Mr. Mathewson : Ordinarily we would not, Init there were 

 times when we would not get any males at all. 



Mr. ^Meehan : I think it was three times the superintendent 

 reported to me. If he were here now he could tell you. 



Mr. Clark : Mr. President, I don't want them to lose sight 



