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distance at wbicli they are situated from civilization, the 

 ■want of the means of intercourse between them and the 

 inhabited parts of the country, the liability to trespass by 

 armed rufBans, and the dreadful rigor of the climate in 

 winter, present very serious obstacles to those who might 

 wish to undertake such management: for obviating some of 

 which I see no better method than the employment, during 

 the summer months, of one or two armed steamers of light 

 draught of water, such as are used for a similar purpose on 

 the east coast of Denmark. These steamere should each 

 have a commander on board, who should be a magistrate 

 and empowered by Parliament to act summarily in cases of 

 infraction of the Fishery Laws, and beside supplying the 

 lighthouses and other public works with stores, oil, building 

 materials, &c., conveying the workmen, managers and fish- 

 ermen to their several stations, and protecting the lessees 

 of the Province, might also be profitably employed as the 

 means of transporting the fresh caught salmon from the 

 several rivers, packed in ice, to the Railroad stations at 

 St. Thomas and Quebec, from whence they could be distri- 

 buted to the markets of Canada and the United States. 

 Two Bills for the protection of salmon and trout in Lower 

 Canada have recently become Acts of Parliament. These 

 may possibly be productive of some good in civilized and 

 inhabited districts, bxit must be utterly ineffective in those 

 parts of the Province where there are no settled inhabitants, 

 no magistrates, and no tribunals before which those who 

 infringe the law can be cited ; and this is the case of all the 

 best rivers in Lower Canada. 



I cannot close these observations without endeavoring to 

 impress on all who hear me, the necessity for prompt action 



