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To Colonel J. K. B. Van Cleave, we are under obligations for 

 assistance in the purchase of our new boat, and for the interest shown 

 by assisting us in the making of valuable collections. 



We wish to acknowledge our obligations to Governor John R. 

 Tanner and his secretary. Colonel J. Mack Tanner, for their uni- 

 formly courteous treatment, and the interest they have manifested in 

 our work. 



APPENDIX. 



In the appendix will be found the following: 



Financial statement of disbursements for the two years ending 

 September 'SO, 1900. 



The list of public waters supplied with fish. 



The list of private applicants supplied with fish. 



The list of Fish Wardens. 



Reports of Fish Wardens. 



Reports on fish removed under permits. 



Copy of the fish laws as they now stand. 



We also give, by request of those using our report, the list of the 

 fishes of Illinois, by permission of Prof. S. A. Forbes, under whose 

 direction the list was made from collections made by him and his 

 associates. Prof. Forbes is not only a man of national reputation, 

 but is considered an authority in every part of the world where his 

 work is known, and hence we have not only availed ourselves of the 

 use of the valuable paper published with our report, but feel much 

 favored in being able to do so. 



SUMMARY. 



In concluding our report we wish to say that taking all the cir- 

 cumstances into consideration, we believe we have done the best we 

 could. 



We have been very generously dealt with by former Legislatures, 

 and have always received courteous and careful attention from the 

 individual members. 



For reasons previously stated, it has been impossible for us to give 

 our entire time to the work, and we have had to depend largely upon 

 the wardens for the enforcement of the laws. Our warden system 

 can never reach the desired efficiency until such changes as we have 

 suggested, or similar ones, have been made. 



That we have been greatly censured for the existence of flagrant 

 violations we have no doubt, and also because we have not promptly 

 responded to every call made upon us; this we could not help, 

 although we have given our personal attention to every case of any 

 kind when it has been possible to do so. The work has grown from 

 one of merely honorary supervision to one that is of great com- 

 mercial importance, and it has required careful management to do 

 justice to ail concerned and accomplish the greatest benefit to the 



