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eel pots and all such other devices as aforesaid within their power,
as required by the preceding section.

1888, ch. 497, sec. 2.

84. It shall be the duty of the said fish commissioners, their
said employees, and all persons who are required to carry out the
provisions of sections 82 to 86, to keep a strict account of the
number of eels caught under the provisions of said sections, and
the manner by which they are so caught, a return of which num-
ber, manner of catching, and the most effective way to catch eels
in the opinion of said fish commissioners, shall be made by them
to the general assembly of 1890.

Ibid. sec. 4.

85. It shall be the duty of said fish commissioners, their
employees, and all other persons engaged in enforcing the pro-
visions of sections 82 to 86, to kill and destroy all eels which may
be caught as aforesaid, and prepare for market, and cause to be
sold at the greatest possible price, all such eels so as aforesaid
caught; an account of which sales they shall keep accurately and
fully, and apply the proceeds thereof in devising the most effec-
tive ways and means in their best judgment in catching, destroy-
ing and preparing for sale as aforesaid all eels which may be
caught as hereinbefore directed; and if there should be any sur-
plus after said allowance and expenses, the same shall be retained
and kept by the said fish commissioners in part payment of their
respective salaries under the kws of this State; a full report of
which said sales, allowances and expenses, and together with the
amount so retained by them, they shall make to the general
assembly of 1890.

Ibid sec. 5.

86. If the said fish commissioners or their said employees
should refuse to carry out and enforce the provisions of sections
82-86, then it shall be the duty of the governor of this State to
investigate the cause of said refusal, and if, after said investiga-
tion, the said governor should find the said refusal to be inten-
tional, unreasonable and without cause, then it shall be the duty
of the said governor at once to remove said officer or employee
so refusing and appoint another who will enforce the provisions
of said sections.