Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-06-24

sions OF this act contained, from and in
Guiding the sixth section to the end thereof
may be prosecuted by any citizen of the
county in which said violation shall take
place, before any justice of the peace or
court OF common pleas or quarter ses-
sions in and for said county, and funds
paid as penalties shall be equally divided
between the school directors of the proper
| district, for school purposes only, and the
complainant or informant.
| Sec. IL. On any of the Streams or parts
of streams contemplated by this act, and
| under the jurisdiction of this common
| wealth, to which anadromous or migratory
fishes shall now have access by the non lex
istence of dams or by openings in dams,
whether intended or not to facilitate such
| access; and in whatever of the reaches or
spaces below or between dams such plant
ing of new species shall have taken place.
as is herein contemplated, the sheriffs of
the counties having Jurisdiction of streams,
whenever they shall discover or be iuforn,-
ed Of the existence of such coptrivances for
the catching of fish as are commonly
known as. fish baskets, eel wiers, kiddles,
brush Or fascine nets, or any other perma-
nently set means of taking fish in the ma
ture of seive, which are known. to be
wasteful and extravagant modes OF fishing,
the said sherifis shall give ten days notice
in teo newspapers of their respective coun-
ties that the said contrivapces are known
to exist, and are declared common nui-
| sances, ordering them to be disman-
tied by their owners and managers so as to
render them no longer capable of taking or
er kind, and if, at the expiration of said
ten days, the said dismantling shall not
have taken place, then the said sheriffS
shall proceed with such force and good
men of the county as may be necessary for
the purpose, and destroy or dismantle the
said fish basket, kiddles, eel wiers or such
other devices contemplated by this section,
so that they may be no longer capable of
taking or iniuring fish, aud the accounting
officers of the counties shall make good the
cost of the said proceedings to the said She
riff or sheriffs in the settlement of their ac-
counts with tho said sherif1s, and if upon
being duly informed by n reputable citizen
of the county that said nuisances arei in ex-
istence and require abatement, the said
sherifs shall not proceed as directed in this
act, then he or they upon conviction in the
county court of the said neglect of duty,
shall be fined not less. than 800 nor more
than 81 900 for every such neglect, the said
fine to be collected as ordinary fines are
collected, and the proceeds divided equally
between the informer or complainant and
the school directors of the proper district
for school purposes only. This section is
not intended to supersede any other law of
this commonwealth for the suppression of
fish baskets, &C., if the same be found efi-
cacious to destroy or abolish them.
Sac. IA. All acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
JAMES II. WEBB,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
VIM. 4. WALLACE, .,...
Speaker Of the Senate.
Approved the Oath day of May, 1871:
JNO. w. GEARY,