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on the second Tuesday of December annually for the
transaction of civil and criminal business.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
..-. ~. [ApprOved March 49, 1901 -se..e.
Chapter III.

,- Chapter III.
AN ACT additional to chapter seventy of the public
| laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, to regulate
SECT. l. The provisions of this act and the act to
which this is additional, shall apply to all the fresh
waters Of this state above the flow of the tide and
to all the tidal waters frequented by the various spe
ces Of fresh water and migratory fishes, with such
exceptions as may be hereinafter mentioned.
tU ee Ge
fshed for in any manner in the Aroostook. Presque
Isle and Meduxnakeag rivers, under penalty OF not
more than twenty less than ten dollars and fur
ther penalty of ten dollars for every salmon taken.
| SECT. g. Whoever shall take any black bass dur
Ing the months n;, OF April May and June or at any
offence not more than twenty nor less than five dol
lars. and further penalty of one dollar for each
| SECT. A. No smelts shall be taken or fshed for in
any other manner than by hook and line or dip-net
November of each year, under penalty OF not more
than fifty nor less than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. IS: Ne net. other than dip:net, whose
shall be used in any waters frequented by migratory
fishes between the first day of March and the first
day of November in any year, under penalty of not
offence. ~ - .s-e Is Is. ss-f.-
| SECT. g. Any riparian proprietor may, within the
limits OF his own premises, inclose the waters of
stream not navigable for the cultivation of useful
fishes; provided he furnishes suitable passage for
migratory fishes naturally frequenting such waters,
does not obstruct the passage OF boats and other
craft and materials in places where the same have
pass.
SECT. T. Any person legally engaged in the artif-
cial culture and maintenance of fishes may take them
in his own waters how and when he peases, and may
at all times sell them for these purposes but shall not
them for food at when the capture of such
| fish is prohibited by law. nai5.4- 4
| SECT. g. Whoever fishes in that portion of pond,
stream other water in which fishes lawfully
tifcially cultivated maintained, without the per-
mission of the proprietor shall forfeit not than
fifty nor less than ten dollars and one dollar tor every
SECT. 9. The governor with the advice of the
council shall appoint fish wardens wherever the same
may be necessary 1t shall be the duty of such war
dens to enforce the provisions Of all pubic laws elat
ing to fisheries; they shall have all the powers given
to fish wardes by section eleven of chapter seventy
of the public laws Of eighteen hundred sixty-nne,
each person appointed shall hold office for three
years unless sooner removed, and his pay shall be
fixed by the governor and council, who shall audit
his accounts and the to be paid from the
state treasury provided that the total amount paid
to all the wardens shall not exceed one thousand dol
lars annually. .e
SECT. 10. Chapter seventy Of the public laws of
eighteen hundred sixty nine is hereby amended by
striking out sections one, nine, ten, fourteen and
thirty One. rafsus
SECT. II. Said chapter is further amended in the
twelfth section by inserting after the word close
time in the twelfth line the words to the intent
that during said weekly closetime the fish may have
tree and passage through such IN weir or
in any part of such structure which shall tend to him
der such fish, 1. ese-
thirtieth section by striking out the words " the
stream from Walkers pond in Brooksville," and the
words " that portion OF the penODScOt river and It's
tributaries below Orphans island also the kennebec
river below Lees island" so that said section
| amended shall read as follows:
SECT. 30. The following waters and their tributa-
res exempt from the operation Of the provisions
of this act relating to the migratory fishes and the
supervision of fshways by the commissioners that is
to say: Royals river in North Yarmouth Sewalls
pond its outlet in Arrowsic; Nequasset stream in
WoOlwich Damarscotta river; Duck trap stream in
LncOlnvile and Belmont; the Eastern PenObscot
river in Orland; WnslOw's and Leach's streams in
Penobscot; all waters in Vinalhaven, Bluehill, IRE
mont, Mount Desert, Eden, Franklin and Sullivan;
Tunk river in Steuben; Pleasant river in Washington
county, East Machias river, and Cobscook or Orange
river in Whiting # ~.s I'D ass
SECT 13. The following waters are exempt from
those provisions of this act and Of chapter seventy of
the public laws of eighteen hundred sixty nine,
which relate to the capture of salmon shad and ale
wives namely, Dennys river and its tributaries and
Pinmaquan river and its tributaries.
SECT IA. The provisions of sections twenty-five,
twenty -four twenty-five and twenty OF the act
to which this is additional shall apply to this act.
! SECr Is. All acts relating to fisheries in the
stream from Gray's pond or Walkers pond in the
towns of SedgWck and Brooksvile, and all other
acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provis
| ions of this act are hereby repealed
SECT 49, This act shall take effect when approved.
| [Approved March q, 1901
| Chapter 152.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled " An Act to amend
section ten of chapter eghty-seven OF the revised
statutes" relating to the survival of actions, APP
| proved March eleventh. eighteen hundred and!sev.