The Penn's Grove record., 1913-11-28
FISH AND GAME
in BIG BUREAU
Administration to Make Long
Talked of Consolidation
WILL SAVE $50, 600 TO STATE
Single-Head Commission Under Direc-
ton of Charles r. Bacon to Abolish
Oyster Superintendent and Bu-
reau of Shell Fisheries.

Trenton.-One of the most i'm
portant changes in State government
management which is practically GER
tain of becoming effective this winter
will involve much change of law and
the creation of a large, single-head
department, under the experienced
direction of Charles R. Bacon, to be
brought about by abolition of all the
State oyster commissions and super
~intendents and the bureau of shell
fisheries. The plan, worked out by
the Economy and Efficiency Commits
sion and having the approval of other
State officials, is to place the duties
of the present commissions, superin-
tendents and bureau in the hands of
the State Fish and Game Commits,
sion, with Mr.. Bacon retained in
the scheme, because of his long study
and efficient service as chief of the
present shellfsh bureau, as head of
the whole work under direction of
the Fish and Game Commission,
which is to be enlarged to eight mem
bers and become a bureau with SUBJ
divisions.
Will Save $4,000.
This will bring about a saving to
the State of approximately $50, 900,
and would give to the lessees of the
State oyster grounds the efficient po-
lice protection of the commission
which now so thoroughly enforces
tho Qamo Ia Wc of tho nntjrn Cto4o
The manner in which it can be put
into operation, together with recon-
m~endations as to the laws which it
will be necessary to pass, will be re-
ported upon as follows by the Econ
omy and Efficiency Commission.
Ffrst-Abolish the following Of
fees:
(a) Chief of the Bureau of Shell
Fisheries.
Cb) New Jersey State Oyster Com
mission.
Co Ocean County Commission.
(d) Ocean County superintendent.
(e) Atlantic County Commission.
(f) Atlantic County superintendent.
(g) Shark River Commission
Second-That the Board of Fish
and Game Commissioners, to be
known, however, as the Bureau of
Game and Fisheries, succeed to the
powers and duties of such chief, COM
missions and superintendent.
Third-That the Board of Fish and
Game Commissioners be reorganized
under the name Bureau of Game and
Fisheries and so that the oyster in
dustry may be represented thereon.
Fourth-That the Bureau Of Game
and Fisheries shall meet in the State
House Trenton, once a month and at
such other times and places as it
may deem advisable, and that all it's
meetings shall he open to the public.
Fifth-That the terms of office of
the members of the Board of Fish
and Game Commissioners shall ter
inmate on the first day Of April,
1913; that the board be increased to
eight; that the Governor be author
lied, with the advice and consent
of the Senate, to appoint two for one
year from April 1, 1913, two for two
years, two for three years, two for
four years, and annually thereafter,
two for four years; that not more
than four shall be members of the
same political party, and that four
shall be men engaged in the industry
of planting and shipping oysters.
Sixth-The bureau should be az
thorized and directed to select one
of their own number, or someone else,
to act as chief of the bureau; to fix
his salary at not exceeding $4,000 a
year and subject to its control and
advice to have general charge and
supervision of it's work.
Forty Deer Shot.
At least forty buck deer fell vic
TINS to the sportsmen's guns during
the first five days of November in the
northern counties of this State, ac-
cording to William C. Kline, a Pas
sale county game warden. Kline and
Fred B. Hall, an Essex county game
warden, of Bloomfield, usually travel
together in any section of the counties
where the game laws are likely to be
violated.
Kline says he has records showing
that one deer was shot in Essex
county, near Swinefield, on election
day; two were shot in Bergen county,
in the section north of Hackensack
and Paterson; at least seven in Nor
ris county; four in Passaic county,
and the remainder in Sussex and
Warren counties.
The largest deer reported was one
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