The daily gazette., 1881-02-04
Letter From Samuel Town.
send.

1
Mr.. EDITOR IL have Just been
shown what is termed proposed
act at Dover called the "Fish.
Oyster and Game Law" Two
years ago tyranical act was passed
called "game law" for the bene-
lit of certain sporting gentry. l
stated then that the Legislature had
no rights TO give to these exclusives,
as the only public properly was the
roads, and cunning or shooting had
already been forbidden on public
roads. There were great promises
ofstocking the State with birds, and
no doubt these game law men have
shot and killed fifty times more
birds than they introduced or turned
loose in the State. Now one pro.
vision in the proposed new bill is a
me OF S25 on any person who shoots
ln the next four years a pra lie
chicken worth from 10 to Is cen.s).
the iniormer getting one-half of the
hue; therefore if poor man shoots
one OF said chickens and owns COW
worth S25, his COW would be taken
from him for the fine, and his hogs
might be taken for the costs. God
help the poor man Is this law in.
tended for Delaware or Russia ? and
next a long penal law about fish.
This fish Matching and stocking
waters with fish is merely an erperi- |
ment started several years ago by a |
Yankee named Seth Green. Now
N fhA nnnK,la .Nf nnl.,n.,o a
rivers or creeks, or mill ponds and
hardly knew what a fish was, and
were on the point OF starvation
unless something could be intro
duced to sustain life, there might be
some excuse to try the experiment
OF food fish law, but as Delaware
through her situation has naturally
fine supplies of fish is 1t sensible or
reasonable that her citizens should
be deprived OF the right to take fish
by seines, gill nets and hook and
line, under penalty of heavy fines
Tor fear they might catch a stray
Herman sucker or carp, or trout, or
salmon? Year before last, after
great blowing and several volumi-
nous documents passed between our
Fish Commissioner
Baird at Washington, and myself,
about 40 fish, about | inches long,
we're sent to me, called German
;arp or Danube suckers. | had
hem put in the ill,pond, and up to
his time l have never seen or heard
If them, and would it be reasonable
hat persons should not by gill net
Dr hook aud line be debarred under
leayy penalty from fishing IN said
'ond where there are pike, white
,erch, suckers, catfish and mud shad
nd other pan fish. Also religion is !
INVOKED, as 1t states heavy penalty
or catching a fish on Sunday by
ONE poor man or boy who may
eed them to sustain life, whilst
abroad companies tramp on the
unday laws by running cars and
laklng up train loads of most dis
rderly persons to 20 on excursions i
watering places aud negro meet q
lgs. This is winked at, whilst q .
oor boy who catches catfish is o
eayily fined, and if a terrapin hap =
ems TO be one quarter OF an inch u
hder Six inches and is sold the p
erson is subject to a line of Fl fteen :,
Ollars. Appoquinimink Hundred
bounded Oh most OF her parts by
elaware Bay, APPOINTMENTS and n
lackbird creeks and mill ponds. :
II both creeks there have been
IN landings since the first settle
ont OF the county. One of the said
ndings on Appoqulnimink creek is 4.
the farm OF our member of the L
eglslature, and is it reasonable or
be expected that citizens of this
lndred would forego their priyi-
5es and supply by nature of fish TO
a doubtful experiment of fish
tehing, whilst we now have
ad, rock fish, and white perch that
We no equal; therefore this Huns
ed nearly to a man, demands ex-
ption from such proposed law, :
d that no fish commissioners be u
owed to tread foot in this Hum
I'd to carry out such an outrageous
v or let go one fish, for we would
her be without him and his fish
IN to submit TO such a law.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND