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President: Tlieii we will hear from the committee on reso- 

 lutions. 



Mr. ^Meehan : 'Jlie eonnnitt(>e has directed me to present the 

 following resohition : — 



Resolved, That the secretary of this society be directed to pre- 

 pare and forward a copy of this resolution to the fishery officials or 

 other proper officials of the several states interested, with the re- 

 quest that they have the same presented to the next session of their 

 legislature and use every effort to have it adopted: 



Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 



State of , in Assembly met, that the State of 



cedes to the National Government any right or title it may have or 

 jurisdiction over the fisheries in any waters forming the boundary 

 between this and any other state so far as this state has jurisdic- 

 tion and also over the fisheries of the waters of the Great Lakes 

 which form a boundary line between this state and a foreign gov- 

 ernment. 



President: I would he glad if that might he read once more. 



Eesolution reread hy 'My. ]\[eehan. 



Mr. Meehan : I should say that the committee knew, in 

 fact, that in some states this would not be exactly correct. It 

 would not be for our state, for instance, so far as the Delaware 

 River is concerned, because we would have to add to that that 

 this shall go into effect when the state of New Jersey passes a 

 similar law. There is a treaty by which they have concurrent 

 Jurisdiction, and consequently it would be a concurrent resolu- 

 tion between the states; but this was merely some sort of a form- 

 ula for a draft of a resolution. 



President: We will consider this resolution. The question 

 is on the adoption of the report by the committee. Are there any 

 remarks on that? The phraseology of that resolution, is, I am 

 sure, somewhat different from that which we passed in Wis- 

 consin; and I do not believe that would have passed, although 

 it amounts to nearly the same thing. Would it not be a good 

 plan to have the secretary make his letter deal with the general 

 subject of the cession of control, and then submit, by way of 

 showing what has been done, copies of Minnesota and Wiscon- 

 sin resolutions, rather than try to make a formula, as though 

 we had a particular formula which the society wanted to have 

 adopted ? 



