Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-07-05
SHEKIFF'S NOTICE
for the enforcement OF the Fish
Law.

TNDER the Act of the Legislature of Penn
~ sylvania, passed at the session of 1871, for
the protection of salmon, black bass, and other
food fishes newly introduced. or to be introduc-
cd into the river Delaware and Susquehanna and
their tributaries generally and for the protection
of fish generally in said streams, |, Samuel II.
Rothermel, Sheriff of Northumberland County,
in compliance with and for the enforcement of
said law, hereby give notice that all eonvenien-
ces for the catching Of fish, commonly called fish
baskets, &C., within my jurisdiction Sheriff of
said county, and now known to exist in the
streams of said county, are hereby declared to be
common nuisanccs, and hereby command ac-
cording to law, that they be removed and dis
mantled by the owners or managers thereof,
within ten Gays from the date of this proclama.
tion. And for the Information of the public,
hereto attach that section Of the Fish-Law relat-
ing to the removal and dismanting of fsh-bas-
kets, &C.:
See. IL. On any OF the streams or parts Of
streams contemplated by this act, and under the
jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, to which an
adromous or migratory fishes shall have access,
By the non-eXiitence of dams, or by openings In
the dams, whether intended or not to facilitate
such access, and whatever in the reaches OF spa
ces below or between dams, such planting of
new species shall have taken place, rs herein
contemplated, the sheriffs of the counties having
jurisdiction of such reaches of the streams, when
ever they shall discover or be informed Of the eI
istencc OF such contrivances to the catching of
fish as are commonly known as fsh-baskets, eel
wiers, kiddcs, brush or fascne nets, or any 9TH
er permanently set means of taking fish, in thG
nature of a seive, which are known to be waste
full and extravagant modes of fishing, the said
sheriis shall give ten days notice in two news
papers of their respective counties that the said
contrivances are known to exist and are common
nuisances, ordering them to be dsmantled by
their owners or managers, so as TO render them
no longer capable of injuring the fishes of the
streams of whatever kind and IL at the eNpra-
tion OF the said ten days the dismantleing shall
not have taken place, then the said sheriff shall
proceed, with such force of good men of the
county may be necessary for the purpose, and
destroy or dismantle the said sh-baskets, Kid.
dies, eel wers such other devices conteinplat-
ed hy this section, that they may be no longer
capable of injuring fish and the accounting OIL
GERS OF the counties shall make good the cost of
the said proceedings To the said sheriff or shcrtIs,
In the settlement OF their accounts with the said
sheriffs and if upon being duly Informed by II
reputable citizen of the county that said nuisan-
ces in existence and require abatement, the
said sheriff or shcriis shall not proceed AS di-
rected in this act, then he or they, upon convic-
ton in the county court of the said neglect of
duty, shall be fined not less than one hundred
nor more than one thousand dollars for every
such neglect said fines to be collected as ord-
nary fines are collected, aud the proceeds are to
be divided equally between the informer or COM
plainant and the school directors of the proper
district, for school purposes only this section
is not intended to supercede any other law of
this Commonwealth for the suppression of fish
baskets, ct cetera, If the same be found eticaci-
Gus to destroy or abolish them.
SAMUEL II. ROTHERMEI.. Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Sunbury, June l3, 1873.