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REPORT OP BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
Amend section 628a, relating to striped bass, by establishing a close 
season of six weeks from the 1st day of May to the 15th day of June, 
during which time (the principal spawning season of these fish) their 
capture by nets and seines shall be prohibited. 
Amend section 632-J, referring to steelhead trout, by removing the 
close season that existed during the months of September and October, 
and to open the season for the capture of steelhead trout in all waters 
of the State April 1st, and to extend to February 1st the following 
year. 
Amend Section 634 by reducing the mesh of net at which salmon can 
be taken from 7-J to 6^ inches, and reduce the mesh of net by which 
striped bass and shad can be taken to 5-J inches. 
Amend section 636 by striking out the word “set” and substituting 
the word “use.” 
Amend the act of 1887, March 21st, referring to the vocation of fish¬ 
ing by reducing the amount of license fee to a citizen of the United 
States from $5.00 to $2.50 and raising the fee to any person not a 
citizen of the United States to $10. 
We append herewith an additional statement of the condition of the 
game preservation fund, showing the amount remaining in this fund 
on February 1-, 1909, from the sale of hunting licenses and fines col¬ 
lected, together with our estimate of expenses for game preservation to 
the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1909. 
Amount in license fund February 1, 1909_$106,276 00 
Amount received for fines since July 1, 1908_ 4,161 00 
Estimate of expenses of the Commission for game preservation for the 
next five months : 
Salary and expenses of 62 deputies and assistants, $7,560 i 
per month_$37,800 00 
For rewards in conviction cases paid outside deputies, 
monthly average $450_ 2,250 00 
Expenses of Game Farm, monthly average $300_ 1,500 00 
Incidentals, including office rent, expressage, license tags, 
telephone, and telegraph, fuel for launches, cost of prose¬ 
cutions in justice and superior courts, postage, stationery, 
etc., monthly average $660_ 3,300 00 
Repair and maintenance of car_ 500 00 
Bounty on lions per month, $600_ 3,000 00 
Hungarian partridges and pheasants (contracted for)_ 3,000 00 
Trapping and distributing quail and procuring and import¬ 
ing wild turkeys_ 4,000 00 
Proposed expenditures for Hungarian partridges_ 5.000 00 
$110,437 00 
60,350 00 
Balance _ $50,087 00 
N. B.—It should be borne in mind that it will be four months after 
the end of the present fiscal year, during which time no license money 
will be available and the average monthly expense of about $12,000—or, 
