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sippi—there is no doubt about that—and I should like to see it, 
so far as our boundary rivers are concerned, enforced. 
Mr. Fullerton: We have had a game warden in Minnesota 
arrested for kidnapping, by the Wisconsin authorities, which is 
a penitentiary offense in Wisconsin, punishable by a maximum 
imprisonment of fifteen years. Our warden arrested a man for 
fishing over an imaginary line on the ice; and they lay for the 
warden, arrested him, and brought him to Wisconsin and tried 
him for kidnapping. We had hard work to get him off. 
President: If there is no objection, the words suggested 
will be introduced into the resolution. 
Mr. Meehan: Then the resolution which we offer will read 
as follows: 
Resolution offered by Mr. Fullerton of Minnesota, and 
signed for report by the resolutions committee : 
Resolved, That the American Fisheries Society, assembled 
at White Sulphur Springs, at this thirty-fourth annual conven- 
tion, wish to heartily commend the efforts that are bemg put 
forth to have the different states cede to the National Govern- 
ment any jurisdiction they may have over the fisheries of the 
Great Lakes and interstate water forming the boundary between 
said states. And be it further 
Resolved, That this society most heartily commends the 
efforts of Representative Shiras of Pennsylvania in his efforts to 
secure the passage of a federal law regulating the fishing on the 
Great Lakes forming a boundary between this country and 
Canada. And be it further 
Resolved, That this society pledges its membership indi- 
vidually and as a society, to get their respective Congressmen and 
Senators committed to the support of this measure. 
The resolution was then unanimously adopted. 
The committee on resolutions then presented the following 
supplementary report which was unanimously adopted. 
Whereas, The American Fisheries Society in annual con- 
vention assembled at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, has 
learned of the action of the International Fishery Congress in 
