The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-11
AN ACT
PROTECTION AND PROPAGATION
OF FISH.

SECTION I. BE it endcted DC, That
the sum of thirty thousand dollars or
so much thereof as may be necessary
is hereby specifically appropriated to
be paid upon the warrant or warrants
of the State Fishery Commission, or a
majority of them, for expenditures dur
ing the two fiscal years beginning June
first, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety one, for the purpose of Matching
and propagating useful food and game
fishes, and to stock and supply all the
streams, lakes and waters of the Com
monwealth with the same, BY distribu-
ting the impregnated spawn fry to all
parts of the State, and for the dissem-
ination of any varieties of fish in the
waters of the State, and to employ the
necessary labor, service, material and
implements therefor, and to pay the
necessary and reasonable expenses of
the said Fishery Commissioners, and
to pay for any Improvements and re-
pairs necessary in the State hatcheries;
and that the sum of ten thousand dol
lars, or so much thereof. as may be
necessary, is hereby specifically appro-
priated for the salaries and expenses
of the water bailiffs the Commission
ers may appoint or may have appoint
ed, the said sum to cover the salaries
for the two years aforesaid and that
the sum of five thousand dollars or so
much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby specifically appropriated for the
purchase of a fish car, for the purpose
Of better and more safely transporting
fish and fry from the hatcheries to diff
ferent portions of the State; and the
sum of two thousand dollars or so
much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby specifically appropriated for
the erection and furnishing a sub
hatchery in Lackawanna or Monroe
county, as the commissioners may see
fit to locate it.
The said appropriations to be paid
on the warrant of the Auditor Gener-
al on settlement made by him and
the State Treasurer, but no warrant
shall be drawn on settlement made un-
til the officers of said commission shall
have made, under oath, to the Auditor
General report containing an item
lied statement of the expense of said
commission during the previous quar-
ter and the same is approved by him
and the State Treasurer, nor until the
Treasurer shall have sufficient money
in the treasury not otherwise appropri,
ated to pay the quarterly instalmen,
due said commission.
Jttae 20th, 1891.
approve all the items of the bill
making an appropriation for the pro
lection and propagation Of fish, excep
the following:
''And the sum of two thousand dol
lars, or so much thereof as may b,
necessary, is hereby specifically appro
priated for the erection and furnishin,
of sub-hatchery in Lackawanna O
Monroe county, as the commissioner
may see fit to locate it." am reliabl
informed by members of the fish com
mission that there is no immediate O
pressing necessity for few sub-hatch
cry. The appropriation of two thous
and dollars would not in itself be sui
ficient to provide for such a hatcher
and the maintenance thereof, and
would involve and make necessar
very much larger appropriations here
after than are contemplated by thi
bill. l am of the opinion that tn
project of establishing another sui
hatchery can with profit be postpone
until the necessity for it is more clea1
r ly demonstrated, by which time ampl
appropriation can probably be mad
for the maintenance as we'll as the e.
, tablishment of the same. ..tHtt
ROBT. E. PATTISON.