Annual report (1901) (14563473479)

Pike fishing
Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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es.It is a wonder to many how such efficient men can be secured when informedthat the average protector only received $500 per year, with an allowance ofthirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month for expenses. Illegal Devices $m<z(L. The table in the appendix will show the work of the protectors during the pastyear as to the number of nets and other devices which, while being illegallyoperated for the taking of fish, were seized and destroyed; also the number ofactions brought and concluded. Several cases which are commenced near the close of the year necessarilygo over from year to year, fail to be reached for trial, or are appealed to highercourts. Actions Acrainsf ^qaaffers. Many actions for ejectment have been commenced against squatters onState land who persist in building and otherwise trespassing. One importantcase, known as Wells vs. Johnston & Gibby, was decided by the Court of Appealsin favor of the people, which settled any further question as to the States title
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s entoW to FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 87 to a tract of land known as the North Gouverneur Tract, in Oneida County.The action arose on account of the seizure and sale by the Commission of about$700 worth of pulp-wood cut on said lot and sold to Johnston & Gibby, whom theCommission were bound to protect in the purchase. Mr. Wells claimed title tothe land by a county tax sale of Oneida County, and this decision settles for alltime any claim against land acquired by State tax sales over county sales. Tf)e Cold Storage Case. The noted case of the People vs. The Arctic Refrigerating Company of NewYork City, which was being pressed in the Appellate Court at the time of theissuance of the last report of the Commission, is now in the Court of Appealswaiting its turn with other cases, and, judging by the decisions of the Supremeand Appellate Courts, the people will be successful as to the major portion of theirclaims. The defective points in the law, which affected a portion of the a