Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-02-09

NC. SO-AN ACT REVISING, IN AMEND
MENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO THE
FISH AND GAME LAWS.
IT is HEREBY ENACTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF vERMoNT:
SECTION l. Words and phrases under
this act, and in proceedings pursuant
thereto, shall, unless inconsistent with
the context, mean as follows:
l. angling" is defined to mean taking
fish with hook and line, or rod held in
hand, and does not include set lines.
2 "Closl season" is that period of time
during which an act is prohibited
B. Where an act is prohibited between
two dates, it is not lawful upon the first
date named, and is lawful upon the date
last named.
4 Private preserve" is defined to mean
natural pond, the area of which is not
more than twenty acres, owned by COM
mon owner, or any artificial pond made
solely for the purpose of fish culture
owned by common owner.
8. "Pubic waters" is defined to mean
all waters over which this state has juris-
diction, exclusive of private preserves and
posted waters" the term "posted waters"
meaning all waters on lands posted as pro-
vided by sections 46 and Al of this act.
9. "Waters of this state" is defined to
mean all the waters over which Vermont
has jurisdiction.
z. Words importing the singular num-
Der may extend to and import the plural
number, and words importing the plural
number may import the singular number
Fish and Game Comm sioners and War
dens and Their Duties.
SEC 2. The governor, in the month
preceding the date first herein after named,
shall appoint two persons to be styled fish
and game commissioners, one for two
years and one for four years from the first
day of December, 1896; and thereafter,
bienially, one member of the board shall
be appointed for the term of four years in
place of the member whose term of office
expires on the first day of December fol-
lowing each biennial session of the gen.
eral assembly. Vacancies in the office of
fish and game commissioner shall be
filled by the governor
SEC. 3. From the passage of this act
ill the first day of December, 1895, the
officers known before the passage of this
act as fish commissioners, and their sue
cessors, shall be termed, designated and
known as fish and ,me commissioners,
and shall have all the rights, powers and
privileges, and be subject to the same re-
sponsibilities and have the same duties as
the fish and game commissioners de-
scribed in this act And the phrase "fsh
and game commissioners" used in this
act, or any word or phrase importing the
same, or one or both of the same, shall
refer and apply with equal force, until
said first day of December, 1925, to the
officers heretofore known as fish commits
sioners, or their successors, or one or both
OF them, as the case may be.
SEC. 4. The fish and game commits
sioners may confer with the fish commits
sioners and the fish and game commits
sioners Of other States and Canada; direct,
in their discretion, the construction OF
fishways and, at the expense of the State,
introduce trout, shad, salmon and other
good varieties of fish into such streams,
lakes and ponds within the State, not
private preserves or posted waters, as
they deem suited to the successful Guilt
walton of fish, and for this and other pur-
poses they shall have sole conduct and
control of such fish Matching stations as
are now owned or operated by the State
and such as may BIZ hereafter established,
and may make all regulations and rules
necessary for the distribution of the pro-
duct of such station or sJations they
shall adopt suitable measures to secure
the enforcement of the laws relating to
the protection of fish and game, and shall
make a biennial report to the governor
containing record of their acts and ex-
penditures, and such recommendations
respecting the preservation and propaga-
ton of fish ana game as they deem advis-
able; but the expense incurred under the
provisions contained IN this section, ex-
cept such expense as may be permitted by
law in the conduct and control of such
fish Matching station or stations, shall not
exceed two thousand dollars annually.
SEC. 5. Waters stocked by the fish and
game commissioners shall thereafter be
treated as public waters, provided that
a person, company or corporation, which
might otherw. Sc make such waters pri-
vate preserve or posted waters, may do so
five years after having filed with the fish
and game commissioners written notice
of intention to make such waters a private
preserve or posted waters. Such notice
shall contain a reasonably definite descrip-
ton of the stream, portion of stream or
pond so intended to be made a private
preserve or posted waters, and shall be
preserved in the files of the fish and game
commissioners.
SEC. 9. When the fish and game COM
missioners place fish In pond or stream
they may post conspicuously on the banks
a notice that fishing therein, or in specified
portions thereof, is prohibited for any
period not to exceed three years, and they
shall give like notice in a newspaper pub
lished in the county where the pond or
stream wherein fishing is so prohibited is
located, by publishing such notice in said
paper for three successive weeks; and il a
person thereafter fishes. or attempts to
fish, in said waters within the time speci-
fed, he shall be fined fifty dollars and costs
of prosecution, but such prosecution must
be commenced within six months after
The off .nce is committed.
SEC. Z. The fish and game commission
ers may take fish in public waters, and
the owners of private preserves may take
fish in their preserves, ut any time and in
such manner as may be most convenient
for purposes of propagatio on, dissemina-
ton or science; but they shall not be
taken, used or sold for the purposes Of
food within the close season. The fish
and game commiss. oners may commits
sion persons, for time specified and re-
serving power of revocation, to take, kill