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ber of the auditing committee who certifies to the account, 
and vouchers in duplicate are taken for all payments. 
William A. Butler, Jr., of Detroit, has been Treasurer of 
the Commission since about 1883. 
Bound volumes are kept of the statistical reports and 
examining crews: All applications for fish are in writing 
on printed blanks furnished, which describe the location 
and character and temperature and soundings of the water, 
and the surroundings where it is proposed to plant the fry. 
In January, 1893, the term of Dr. Parker expired and 
Horace W. Davis, of Grand Rapids, was appointed his 
successor. 
In December, 1892, an International Fish Conference 
was held at Detroit, under the auspices of the Michigan 
Commission. There were present Samuel Wilmot, of Ot- 
tawa, Canada ; Edward Harris, of Toronto ; Thomas Marks, 
of Port Arthur ;and W.S8. Wells, of Chatham, Ontario, and 
members of the Fish Commissions of New York, Ohio, Min- 
nesota, Maine, and many others from different States, in- 
cluding some fishermen. The subjects discussed were 
connected with uniformity of legislation protecting fish 
and game, and more particularly the vital question of 
a close season for the commercial fish. The main results 
of the meeting were embodied in a report of a committee 
which was adopted as follows, viz: 
‘J, That all small fish and others unfit for food of all 
kinds, when taken in nets, should be replaced in the 
waters when taken alive; that fishermen should not be 
allowed to take such fish on shore nor expose them for 
sale. 
*‘2. That no strings of pound nets used in the lakes 
shall extend more than four miles from shore. 
‘¢3,. That one-half part of all channels between islands 
or elsewhere—where fish migrate to spawn, shall be kept 
free from nets of all kinds at all seasons. 
