The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-04-04
TIE FLsH LAW

The act amendatory of the act to
protect Hsh i'm the State at Tennes-
see, approved March "a 1883, pro-
vides that it shall net be lawful for
any person to catch, kill, destroy or
take fish in or frsm any OF the wa
tiers of the State, Whether a running
stream or lakes or ponds having
outlets intOrunning streams, In high
or low waters, by means OF any
seine, trap, net, or 70 use fish bar-
ries, lime or giant-powder, dynamite.
gun powder or any other explosive
substance for the destruction of fish
in any of said waters, or by any
other means than by angling with
hook and line, and without the line
gig, spike, gun, grab-hook or snatch
hook, providing, that none of the
provisions of this act, shall hinder
or prevent the commissioners of
fisheries or their agent from catch
ing or taking fish from any Of said
waters at such times, and in such
manner as 10 them may seem prop
-er, and to them only for the purpose
OF stocking o.. restocking the waters
of this State; and provided further,
that this act shall not be construed
so as to prohibit the use, of q hand
or minnow net in taking small fish
or minonws for bait; and provided
further, that any citizen of this
State, owning a lake, pond, bayou
or stream, that he or she may wish
to stock with fish, shall have the
same rights and privileges, as to
the mode and time of taking fish for
said purpose, as the Commissioners
of Fisheries have under this act; and
provided further, that any person
possessing or owning a private
pond may have the right to catch
or take fish therefrom at any time
and in any manner he or she may
wish, whether the same have an
outlet into a running stream or not.
That. the section 2 be amended so as
to read as follows: That it shall not
be lawful for any person to place
any traps OF any kind whatever in
any stream, or in the mouth of any
stream or tributary thereof, or in
any lake, pond, bayou or slough
which has an outlet to any running
stream in low water, and thereby
preventing the free ascent and de-
scent up and down the waters. That
it shall not be lawful for any person
to modest, disturb or damage in any
way whatever any fish eggs or
young fish in any of said waters in
said State, except as stated in the
first section of this act. That sec
ton 4 be SO amended as to read as
follows: That any person, COM
pany or corporation violating the
LIST, I'd or Sd sections of this act as
amended shall be guilty of a misde
meanor, and on conviction thereof
before any court of competent juris-
diction shall be fined not less than
five dollars nor more than twenty
five dollars, and shall forfeit all boats,
nets, seines and all other contriv
ances used in violating the provis
lens of this act, which eontrivances
shall be sold at public auction by
the Sheriff CT the county in which
the offense is committed. That
all fines collected and money
arising from sales of contrivances
forfeited under this act shall be paid
to the County Trustee for the use
of the public schools of the county
in which the offense is committed.
That all lakes, ponds, bayous, and
sloughs in any part of this State,
that have no outlet into any run
ming stream in low water, are ex-
empt from the provisions of this act,
and all lakes, ponds, bayous and
sloughs covering an area of more
than fifteen square miles in low wa
ter. That it shall be the duty of
the judges Of the Circuit and Grim,
nal Courts Of this State to give the
of this act in special
charge to the grand juries of their |
Courts at each and every
.erm thereof That the grand juries
If the Circuit and Criminal Courts |
If this State shall have, and are
hereby granted, inquisitorial powers
n all matters coming under the |
of the foregoing enact
nent, with powers to send for wit
lesses and papers and make pre-
entments, to the end that this act
nay be fully enforced; and no pros
cutor shall be required in prosecu-
ions under this act. r9t