Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-09-25
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SHERIFF'S NOTICE
For the Enforcement of the FISH,


TNDER the Act of the Legislature of Penn
- sylyania, passed at the session of 1871, for
the protection of salmon, black bass, and other
food fishes newly introduced, or to be introduced
into the river Delaware and Susquehauna and
their tributaries generally. and for the protection
OF nsh generally In said streams, /, Samuel H.
Rothermel, Sheriff of Northumberland county,
in compliance with and for the enforcement Of
said law, hereby give notice that all conveniences
for the catching of fish, commonly called fish
baskets, &C., within my jurisdiction as Sheriff of
said county, and now known to exist in the
streams of said county, hereby declared to be
common nuisances, and hereby command, ae-
cording to law, that they be removed and dis
mantled by the owners or managers thereof,
within ten days from the date of this proclama-
| ton. And for the information of the public
hereto attach that section of the Fish-Law relat-
| ing to the removal and dismantling of fish bas-
kets. &c.:
SEC. 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-eYistence of DAMS or by openings in
| the dams, whether intended or not to facilitate
such access, and whatever in the reaches of
| spaces below or between dams, such planting Of
new species shall have taken place. as herein
| contemplated, the sheriffs OF the counties having
jurisdiction in such reaches of the streams when
| ever they shall discover or be informed of the
existence of such contrivances to the catching of
| fish as are commonly known as fsE-baskets eel
| wiers, kiddles, brush or fascine nets, or any
/ other permanently set means of taking fish, in
| the nature OF seiye, which are known to be
wasteful and extravagant modes of fishing the
| said sheritfs shall give ten days notice in two
newspapers of their respective counties, that the
| said contriyances are known to exist and are
| common nuisances, ordering them to be dismant-
! led by their owners or managers, so as to render
| them no longer capable of njuring the fishes of
| the streams of whatever kind and if at the ex-
| piratlon of the said ten days the dismantling
shall not have taken place, then the said sheriff
| shall proceed, with such force of good men of
the county as may be necessary for the purpose,
| and destroy or dsmantle the said fish-baskets,
! kiddles, eel wiers or such other devices contem-
| plated by this section, SO that they may be no
| longer capable of inuring fish and the account
ing officers of the counties shall make good the
cost of the said proceedings to the said sheriff or
sherffs, in the settlement of their accounts with
the said sheriffs and if upon being duly inform
| ed by reputable citizen of the county that said
nuisances are in existence and require abatement,
| the said sheriff sheriffs shall not proceed
as directed in this act, then he OF they upon con-
yictiOn 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 ordi
nary fines are collected, and the proceeds are tC
be divided equally between the informer or COM
plainant and the school directors of the prope
district, for school purposes only this section il
! not Intended to supercede any other law of th
| Commonwealth for the suppression of fish bas
kets, ct cetera, if the same be found efficaciOu
! to destroy or abolish them.
! SAMUEL II. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Sunbury, Sept. Is, 1874.