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back to the place at which the offence was committed. Your Commissioners 
further recommend that in the event of the establishment of a permanent. 
Game and Fish Commission, the members of the said Commission should be made 
magistrates under the Game Act for the purpose of taking evidence on oath and 
trying cases brought before their notice from time to time. 
Your Commissioners unanimously and very strongly recommend the forma- 
tion of a Provincial Game Park, in which protection could be afforded to the 
Game and fur-bearing animals of Ontario. Your Commissioners are of opinion 
that the establishment of such a preserve would be the best means of re-stocking 7 
the Province. 
The preserve should, however, be Provincial in its character, and under the 
eontrol of the Government and not in private hands. 
The thanks of your Commissioners are due and are hereby tendered to’ all 
those who have assisted them in their work. 
To the members of the Fish Commissions of the States of Michigan, New — 
York, and Pennsylvania ; the members of the Special Commission on the codifica- 
tion of the New York Game and Fish Laws ; to Mr. Frank’J. Amsden,cf Roch- — 
ester; Mr. W. P. Lett, of Ottawa; Mr. Richard Lancefield, Librarian of the Public 
Library, Hamilton; Mr. A. G. Yates, President of the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pitts- | 
burg Railway, Rochester; Dr. H. M. Smith of the U.S. Fish Commission; Mr. C. 
B. Reynolds of New York City; and Professor F. W. True, Curator of Mammals in 
the National Museum at Washington, D.C., through whose courtesy many of the 
photographs of the animals illustrated have been obtained, especial thanks are- 
due for very great courtesy shown to your Commissioners and very material 
assistance rendered. 
Your Commissioners also desire to record their appreciation of the courtesy 
shown to them by the Mayors and Corporations of the various cities and towns 
in which meetings were held, for the use. of the public buildings placed at their” 
disposal for the purpose of taking evidence. 
Visits were paid by your Commissioners, during the course of their work to 
the State Fish Hatcheries of Michigan and New York, the former being inspected 
on the 14th January, 1891, and the latter on 11th November, 1891. 
Both these famous Hatcheries are so well known as to require little in the 
way of description. 
The visits tothe New York Hatchery at Caledonia, N.Y., was made under 
particulaily favourable circumstances, at the close of the International conference 
on Game and Fish, held at Rochester, when your Commissioners were accompanied 
by many of the leading anthorities on Fish Culture, under direction of Mr. Mon- 
rce KE. Green, the Superintendent of the Hatchery. 
