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time of their first appointment, amd their successors to be appointed 

 at the expiration of the several terms of office, and shall each hold 

 their terms of office for three years. 



Paragraph 2. Duties.] Section 2. It shall be the duty of the 

 persons so appointed to select suitable locations for State fish hatch- 

 ing and breeding establishments, take all measures within their 

 means for propagation and increase of the native food fishes, and also 

 for the introduction of new varieties of' food fishes into the public 

 waters of the State, upon the best terms possible; to employ a practi- 

 cal and competent fish culturist as a superintendent who shall have 

 general charge and care of such establishments, and perform all such 

 duties as the commissioners shall direct. Said board shall not re- 

 ceive any compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed 

 their actual expenditures for traveling and hotel expenses, not to ex- 

 ceed in any event the sum of $300 per annum for the entire board. 

 Provided, That if no appropriation be made no expenses shall be 

 incurred. 



Paragraph 3. Expenses — how paid.] Section 3. The said com- 

 missioners or any two of them shall have authority to draw upon the 

 State Treasurer from any appropriation made in pursuance of the 

 purposes of this bill, as the same may be required, to defray expenses 

 incurred, and shall report to the Governor of the State, all and singu- 

 lar, the items of such expenditures together with the business trans- 

 acted under their commission, such report to be made on or before 

 the commencement of each fiscal year. 



' FISHING ALONG THE LAKE FRONT IN CHICAGO. 



For a great many years it has been a customary thing to see the 

 piers and projections along the lake front literally filled with large 

 dip nets, raised and lowered by winches, the net of small mesh, and 

 tons of small fish have been so taken and distributed throughout the 

 city. 



The work was ostensibly done to catch minnows for bait, but this 

 was mainly used as a blind, and was carried on to such an extent as 

 to become a nuisance. In the enforcement of the law enacted at the 

 last session of the General Assembly we caused printed notices to be 

 served on all that it must cease, and through our very efficient warden, 

 Mr. G. R. Ratio of Chicago, this class of violations has been nearly 

 broken up. 



REGULATING THE CATCHING, SHIPPING AND SALE OF PISH. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 

 in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person or per- 

 sons or corporation to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill in 

 any manner or by any means, whatsoever, in the waters of Lake Michigan, 

 any white fish or lake trout, between the fourteenth day of October in each 

 year and the succeeding thirtieth day of November. It shall be unlawful for 

 any person to set or cause to be set or used in the water of Lake Michigan 

 withm one-quarter of a mile of the main shore thereof, anj' gill, pound or 

 fish net. No dip-nets shall be used except for catching minnows for bait, 

 said dip-nets not to exceed twenty inches in diameter. 



