REPORT. 



To Ms Excellency, Paul Dillingham, 



Governor of the iState of Vermont : 



SiE : — The commis8,ioners, appointed in pursuance of the 

 joint resolution of the Legislature of 1865, relative to the 

 restoration of sea-fish and the introduction of new varieties 

 of fresh-water fish into the waters of the Connecticut and 

 its tributaries, would respectfully submit the following re- 

 port : 



In order to accomplish successfully the desired object of 

 restocking the Connecticut river and its tributaries with mi- 

 gratory fish, it seemed necessary that there should be a hearty 

 co-operation and concurrent legislation on the part of the 

 states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut. 



To secure this it was deemed advisable to confer with the 

 other commissioners that had been appointed, and therefore 

 by previous arrangement we met Hon. H. A. Bellows and 

 Capt. W. A. Sanborn, commissioners for New Hampshire, 

 and Col. Theodore Lyman, one of the commissioners for 

 Massachuetts, at Lawrence, Mass., on the 30th day of No- 

 vember last. At this meeting the commissioners, together 

 with his Excellency, Governor Smyth, of N. H., and several 

 other persons whom we met, manifested much interest in the 

 object for which the meeting was called, and expressed an 



