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April 21, 190G — Thirteen traps taken. At Naples thirteen pounds under- 

 sized fish disposed of. 



Week ending April 28, 190G — At Champaign seized a lot of black bass and 

 crappies that had been shipped from Pekin. 



Week ending May 5, 190G — One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 and costs; 

 fine paid. One hundred fifty pourds of undersized fish disposed of. Con- 

 fiscated ten pounds of black bass at Decatur. 



Week ending May 12, 1906 — I went to Springfield to commence action for 

 selling fish out of season. Went to Burlington, Dubuque and Clinton, Iowa, 

 and investigated the shipments from this State to the above points. 



Week ending May 19, 1906 — One arrest, one conviction, at Springfield; 

 $25.00 and costs; fines paid. One hundred fifty pounds of undersized fish dis- 

 posed of. I went to Springfield and made complaint before Robert Con- 

 nolly, police tiiagistrate, against Thomas McHurley, one of the firm of the 

 firm of the Boston Market of that place, for having and selling fish caught 

 before the closed season. He was fined $25.00 and costs. 



Week ending June 2, 1906 — I put in the week in Chicago assisting Warden 

 Klemman. We made about sixteen arrests and destroyed a number of dip 

 nets and also took about seventy-five pounds of illegal sized fish. 



June 16, 1906 — Eleven pounds of black bass disposed of; shipped contrary 

 to law. 



June 30, 19*06 — One hundred twenty-five pounds disposed of; billed con- 

 trary to law. Found two billings that were contrary to the law, so I took 

 them and turned them over to the Wabash hospital, from which I hold a 

 receipt for the fish. 



July 14, 1906— Six arrests for using hoop nets. One conviction at Ram- 

 sey; one discharged. Went to Ramsey to attend trial of S. C. and David 

 Shiveley. Succeeded in convicting S. C. Shiveley. He was fined | 

 before Charles W. Shutt, J. P., at Ramsey. David Shiveley was acquitted. 

 At Sullivan destroyed twenty wooden traps on my trip. 



July 21, 1906 — Eleven arrests. Fifteen pounds undersized fish disposed of. 

 At Champaign confiscated one barrel of mixed fish, the barrel having in it 

 twenty-five pounds of black bass, and they were not marked on the address 

 side of the package, and twenty-four lake trout that weighed fifteen pounds. 



July 2<S, 1906 — Five pounds of fish disposed of. At Decatur found a ship- 

 ment of fish. It contained cat fish, buffalo, sunfish and drum perch, and there 

 was neither on the address side of the package. They were confiscated. 



Aug. 11, 1906 — Twenty-five dollars fines paid at Ramsey. 



Aug. 18, 1906 — About sevtnty-five pounds fish disposed of. At Decatur, 

 at Pacific express office, I took one box of fish that was not billed according 

 to law. 



Aug. 25, 1906 — Three arresfs; three convictions; $75.00 fines paid at 

 Ramsey. 



Sept. 1, 1906 — At Mt. Pulaski attended the trial of party charged with 

 dynamiting fish. Case was tried by a jury and they found the party guilty 

 and assessed his fine at $75.00 and costs, which amounted to $101.90. 



Sept. 8, 1906 — Sixty-five pounds of fish disposed of. At Champaign con- 

 fiscated a barrel with thirty-five pounds of fish not billed according to law. 



Week ending Sept. 15, 1906 — Five convictions; $125.00 fines paid. Five of 

 the parties implicated in dynamiting fish fined $25.00 and costs each. 



Week ending Sept. 22, 1906 — Ten arrests; two convictions: $50.00 fines 

 paid. 



Week ending Sept. 29, 1906 — Eighty pounds of fish confiscated and dis- 

 posed of at Decatur. 



Report of E. E. Cam>\yiii., Fish Wabden. 



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Week ending Aug. S, 1903 — Took nine baskets and three traps. The river 

 is now clear of baskets as far north as Liverpool and as far south as 

 Matanzas. 



Week ending Aug. 29, 1903--On the 25th 1 wenl to Spoon river, near 

 Waterford, and destroyed some wire netting across the mouth of a little lake 

 to keep the fish in. I also went up to Cedar Island, as requested, and looked 



