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LEGAL SERVICES. 



Our work has been so extended and the complications so numerous 

 in our efforts to enforce the fish and fishway laws, particularly in 

 and about Chicago, that we have been compelled to employ legal 

 help. 



The State's attorney and his assistants have about all they can 

 give attention to, and while willing to help in all they can, find it 

 impossible to attend personally to the frequent cases brought in jus- 

 tices court. Attempts have been made to enjoin the Commissioners 

 or their assistants from enforcing certain sections of our laws. This 

 has been successfully resisted. 



We will require such legal assistance as will enable us to joromptly 

 protect us in the enforcement of our laws. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



After our collections are made they must be taken to other waters, 

 and the question of transportation has been one of the important 

 features. If it had not been for the assistance and co-operation of 

 the railroads of the State our distribution must have been exceed- 

 ingly limited, for every move made with the heavy tanks in which 

 our fish are transported costs money, they are of great inconvenience 

 at times, in baggage cars, where they must be carried, particularly 

 when baggage is running heavy. We have been treated with the 

 utmost courtesy and liberality by the different railroad managements. 



The fish are transported in the baggage cars accompanied by a 

 messenger, whose duty it is to keep the water properly aerated; this 

 is important when connections are made or lay overs from any cause 

 occur. 



Carrying live fish is a matter which is attended by a great deal of 

 risk. As long as the water is kept thoroughly agitated and thus fur- 

 nished with air. tliere will be no loss, but a few minutes only are re- 

 quired to lose them all if not given the required attention. Then it 

 is necessary to carry fish so they will not be injured, as a slight in- 

 jury, such as loss of a scale, or scratch on the eye will quickly result 

 in a fungus condition and the fish will probably die. Fish must also be 

 prepared for change in temperature of the water; ten degrees differ- 

 ence between the water they are taken from and that in tanks into 

 which they are placed for transportation, would prove injurious. The 

 same thing applies when planted. The water in the tanks must 

 gradually be brought to nearly the same temperature as the lake or 

 river into which they are to be placed. A great deal of expense and 

 hard work can easily be wasted by not using proper precaution all 

 along the line. The water in the lakes or sloughs from which the 

 fish are rescued is frequently above 90 degrees, but to carry safely 

 the temperature of the water in tanks should not be above (lO degrees 

 and to put them directly into tanks or receiving ponds would be to 

 almost instantly destroy them all. By a system of cooling down, in- 

 volving 12 hours' time, the water is slowly brought down to requisite 

 temperature. Without constant attention and good assistants money 



