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

pickerel or pike mot wall.eyed pike with
| gun held to shoulder, from the fifteenth
| day of March to the first day Of May in
| each year, or the fishing with seines under
| license from the fish and game commits
| sioners as provided in this act.
SEC. 20. No fish shall be taken by shut
| ting or drawing off water for that pur-
pose, and any person violating the pro
visions of this section shall bo fined not
| more than ten dollars for each fish so
taken.
SEC 20. No person shall by any screen,
obstruction or device for that purpose so
| obstruct any stream, or the outlet or inlet
to any natural pond, or the outlet or inlet
to any artificial pond on apublic stream,
as to prevent the free passage of fish, un-
der penalty of twenty dollars for each
| offense, and a further penalty Of five dol
lars for each day such screen or other OBJ
structiOn Is continued after written no
| tice by fish and game commissioner or
fish and game warden is given to the per-
son who placed or caused to be placed,
such screen or obstruction, requesting the
removal of the same.
| Sec. "a. A person who in any manner
places in the waters of this State, India
Coccle (Coculus Indicus) or other drug or
ing or destroying fish, shall be fined not
less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty
dollars.
Sec. Is. "A person who engages in the
stocking of any of the waters of this State
with pike mot wall-eyed pike or pickerel,
shall be punished by fine Of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, or by six months
Imprisonment, or both
Sec. 26. A person found on any of the
waters of this State or the shores thereof,
in the possession of net, fish-trap.
spear, jack, light, gun, or other instru-
ment or device with the intent to use the
same contrary to law for the capture of
fish, shall be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, or by i'm
prisonment not exceeding thirty days, or
both.
Sec. 81. The use of pond-nets, trap-nets,
seines, gill-nets, setnets, fykes, set-lines,
fishing offers or travis in the waters of
this State is hereby prohibited; and any
person who shall so use for fishing any
such pound-net, trap-net, seine gill-net,
set-net, fyke, set-line, fishing otter or
trawl shall be punished by fine of one
hundred dollars.
SEC %. Any person discovering any Of
the devices enumerated in Section 81 of
this act so set for fishing may seize and
destroy the same, or may seize and de-
liver any pound-nets, trap-nets, seines,
gill-nets, set-nets, or fykes so discovered
to the town clerk of the town where such
seizure occurs within forty-eight hours
after such seizure; and it shall be the duty
of the town clerk to forthwith destroy
such net or nets so delivered to him, and
II nroof tn hia caficfa cti fhot cr,ob
net or nets were in good faith actually
discovered and seized by such person
while placed for use in violation of the
provisions of this act and upon payment
to him by the person Selling such net or
nets of one dollar for each net so de-
livered, it shall be the further duty of
said town clerk to make and deliver to
the person so delivering such net or nets,
an affidavit attesting the delivery of net
or nets SO seized, and that he has de-
sGroyed the same, which affidavit, when
presented to the Auditor of Accounts,
shall authorize him to draw his order on
the State Treasurer in favor of the person
named in said affidavit as having seized
and delivered said net or nets for destruc-
ton, for ten dollars for each net so de-
livered and destroyed. The provisions Of
this act prohibiting the use of nets shall
not apply to the taking Of minnows in
waters not inhabited by trouts with nets
not exceeding forty feet in length.
SEC. %. A person who catches, kills or
destroys fish in private preserves where
fish are being bred artificiaily, without the
consent of the owner thereof. shall be
fined five dollars for each fish so caught,
killed or destroyed.
Sec. 80. A person engaged in the Gull
ture of fish in private preserves may put
up notices at convenient places on the
premises prohibiting fishing on said prem
ises After such notice is publicly given,
a person who enters upon said premises
and catches fish, or FOULS the water thereof
with any substance injurious to the life
and growth of fish, or breaks or destroys
a dam, reservoir or embankment,o or diverts
the water, or wilfully does any damage to
said premises, shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned
not more than six months, and shall also
be liable to the owner thereof for dam
ages.
SEC. 81. No action shall be maintained
against any person for crossing uncul-
tivated land to reach public waters for the
purpose of taking fish, unless actual dam
age has been sustained, and in all actions
brought to recover damages for crossing
land to reach public waters for the pur-
of taking fish, the costs shall be limited to
the damages recovered, if such damages do
not exceed ten dollars.
Licenses.
SEC. so. The Fish and Game Commits
sioners are authorized to issue licenses to
parties residing in this State. to fish with
seine in the waters and upon the shores
of Missiquoi Bay, part of Lake Cham
plain, north of line drawn from the
south end Of Hog Island, SO called, due
west to the Alburgh shore. Such license
shall permit the licensee to so fish for one
year from the time of its issuance at such
times in said year, and at such points, as
the Commissioners shall in said license
designate; and said licenses shall be
granted by the Fish and Game Commits
sioners with especial reference to the Ca.
madam laws on the same subject, and in
manner best suited to give residents of
Vermont the same rights and privileges
at all tim es with respect to seine fishing
in Lake Champlain as are had by persons
fishing with seines under the laws of the
Dominion of Canada.
SEC. SO. Said Commissioners shall make