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KEPOUT OF FISH WAKDPiN JAMES II. NAZWORTIIY, SULLIVAN, ILL. 



Appointed June 5, 1890. Have notified twenty-five persons to obey the 

 law. Have removed no nets. Have made five arrests. Failed to convict 

 in eitlier case for tiie reason that justice of the peace deciding that use 

 of trammel nets was not a violation of the law in our streams. No darns 

 in our county unprovided with fishways. 



Fish matters in our county not very good. Can hear reports of frequent 

 violations of the law. Netting generally carried on at niglit. Think the 

 fishermen have confinxl themselves to night work. I think, however, that 

 illegal seining and netting has diminished since my appointment. In 

 order that the laws may be properly enforced I tliink wardens should 

 have assistants and receive reasonable compensation, and not depend on 

 convictions for fees. 



Respectfully, 



James H. Nazworthy. 



report of fish w' arden w. d. hodgson, new boston, ill. 



Appointed May 19, 1890. Have notified one hundred and fifty persons 

 to obey the law. Have taken up three nets. Have made twenty-one 

 arrests. Have procured sixteen convictions, but in most of the cases fines 

 were remitted by the ofHcers. Have served three fishway notices. No fish- 

 ways put in. Two dams in county not provided with fishways, but both 

 are low and but little obstruction. 



Respectfully, 



W. D. Hodgson. 



REPORT OF FISH W^ARDEN F, H. ANDERSON, SHEPHERD, PIKE COUNTY, ILL. 



Was appointed January, 1892. Have notified three persons to obey the 

 law. Made two arrests and parties discharged in both instances. 



Respectfully, 



F. H. Anderson. 



REPORT OF FISH WARDEN L. C. SCHWERDTFEGER, LINCOLN, ILL. 



Was appointed August 6. 1890. During the past year no violations of 

 the fish laws have come to my notice, and I am of the opinion that, as 

 far as this county is concerned, none are being committed. 



Respectfully, 



L. C. SCHWERDTFEGER. 

 REPORT OF FISH "WARDEN THOMAS PERRY, TERRE HAUTE, ILL. 



Appointed June 6, 1890. Have notified twenty-three persons to obey the 

 law. Have taken up one net. Have made two arrests and obtained one 

 conviction. No fi <hways in county. 



There are st'll some violations reported, but not near as frequent as 

 formerly. Streams in this county are South Henderson and Henry creeks. 



Respectfully, 



Thomas Perry. 



report of fish warden george w. ayers, pekin, ill. 



Appointed April 25, ]889. Notified all fishermen in this vicinity to obey 

 the law. The number is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred. 

 Have talcen up and removed betwee i eighty and ninety nets. Have ar- 

 rested five men for violations of the law. Cases vet in Circuit Court. 



