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repairs and improvements to hatcheries, also to look after the business and interests of 

 the Commission in reference to the protection and preservation of fish and game. 



ii. The Committee on Licenses, Permits and Shellfish shall formulate and submit 

 the rules for licensing net fishing as provided by law ; and, also, for granting permits, 

 and shall from time to time examine all licenses and permits granted, and ascertain 

 whether the terms and conditions of the same have been abused or violated. They 

 shall also have general charge of matters pertaining to the shellfish department not 

 specially delegated to the Shellfish Commissioner by law. 



12. The Executive Committee shall examine and audit all accounts, bills and pay- 

 rolls and endorse the same with their approval when passed ; and no bills or accounts 

 shall be paid until so approved; examine and check all books and accounts ; examine 

 and check all regular and special reports of employes as often as once in each month, 

 and report the result of such examination to the Commission at its first meeting there- 

 after. They shall also have a general supervision of the business of the Commission, 

 and care and control of its interests when the Board is not in session. 



13. The Committee on Legislation shall look after the necessary legislation of the 

 Commission ; shall examine and consider all proposed amendments or changes in the 

 fish, game and forestry laws or new laws affecting these interests, and shall submit to 

 this Board their opinion upon matters which, in their judgment, require legislative action. 



14. The foregoing rules may be altered or amended by vote of a majority of the 

 whole Commission, upon ten days' notice being given, which notice may be in open 

 meeting and entered on the minutes or by serving written notice. 



The following standing committees were appointed : 



Committee on Forest Preservation and State Lands : Messrs. Weed, Lyman and 

 Davis. 



Committee on Hatcheries, Fish Culture and Game : Messrs. Babcock, Thompson 

 and Davis. 



Committee on Licenses, Permits and Shell Fishery : Messrs. Thompson, Lyman 

 and Davis. 



Committee on Legislation : Messrs. Davis, Weed and Babcock. 



Executive Committee : Messrs. Lyman, Babcock and Davis. 



A bookkeeper and accountant was employed and the Comptroller requested to 

 pay only such accounts as had first been duly audited by the Executive Committee. 



At first it was thought necessary to establish a branch office in New York, but 

 upon investigation of the matter it was decided by the Governor, whose approval 

 thereof is necessary, that it was not advisable to do so, a conclusion in which the 

 Commission later on fully concurred. 



