FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



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11. 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 

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

 and entered on the minutes or by serving written notice. 



Commissioner Lyman, having been appointed by the Governor to the office of 

 State Commissioner of Excise, was succeeded on this Commission by Hendrick S. 

 Holden, of Syracuse, April 8, 1896. Mr. Holden was appointed to fill the vacancies 

 in the several standing committees caused by the retirement of Mr. Lyman. 



Standing Committees. 



Forest Preserve and State Lands. — William R. Weed, Hendrick S. Holden, Barnet 

 H. Davis. 



Executive. — Hendrick S. Holden, Charles H. Babcock, Barnet H. Davis. 



Hatcheries, Fish Culture and Game. — Charles H. Babcock, Edward Thompson, 

 Barnet H. Davis. 



Legislation. — Barnet H. Davis, William R. Weed, Charles H. Babcock. 



Chapter 169, Laws of 1896, passed March 31, 1896, to amend chapter 395 of the 

 Laws of 1895, under which this Commission was appointed, provided, among other 

 things, for the compensation and expense of the Commissioners; for the designation 

 of one of the Board to act as Secretary thereof; for the lease of an office in the city 



