Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-28

Copies OF the new fish and game law
will soon be posted throughout the city
and territory and it will be strictly and
energet!cally enforced After providing
for the appointment of the game and
fish warden and his salary. the law
provides that he shall have the power
TO appoint deputies in each county who
shall receive as compensation one-half
of all fines imposed in cases brought
by them.
The law makes it unlawful for any
person to catch, kill or have in his
possession any suecies of trout or
game food fish found in the public
streams or waters of the territory. un-
less such fish has been taken with a
hook and line attached to a rod and
caught between May Is and October
10. Any person having in their pos
session fish caught in any other man
ner, shall be subject to a fine of $25 to
$50 or Imprisonment from thirty to
sixty days or both; and each fish
caught or killed in violation of the
law shall constitute separate offense.
No trout or other game food fish that
is less than six inches in length shall
be taken from any stream in the terri
tory and the penalty for violation of
this provision of the law Is fine of
from $25 to $50 and Imprisonment Of
from thirty to sixty days or both. 1t Is
made unlawful for any person or per
sons, agent or employe, association or
corporation, to buy or sell, or to ex-
pose or offer for sale. any species Of
trout or game food fish taken from the
public streams or waters of the terri
tory, or any game known as elk, deer,
antelope or mountain sheep at any
time during the year. 1t is also made
unlawful for any express company,
railway company, stage line or other
public carrier, to receive or have in
their possession for shipment any Of
the fish or game above named. The
penalty provided for violation of this
section Is fine or from $50 to 500.
Owners of sawmllls are prohibited
from throwing into any stream In
which there are living fish. any saw
dust or other substance that may have
a tendency TO kill the fish. The killing
or catching of fish by poison, dynamite,
drug of any kind. giant powder or like
preparation is forbidden. Violation OF
| this section constitutes felony which
Is punishable by Imprisonment frem
Sia months to one year. owners OF
canals or ditches in which any portion
OF the waters OF any stream in which
are game food fish, are diverted for ir
rigation purposes, are required to ar.
range at the head of such canal or in
take a wife screen or screens of suffi-
cient tineness to prevent the passage
through of any such fish of the length
or three inches. Any such owner or
person who fails to arrange such
Screen within thirty days after receiv-
Ing notice to do so, shall be subject to
a fine Of from $25 to $50 or imprison-
ment for thirty or sixty days or both.
II is made unlawful at any time for any
one person to catch or kill or have in
his possession in any one day more
than fifteen pounds of speckled trout
or more than twenty-five pounds of
bass taken from any of the streams or
waters of the territory. The penalty
for violation is a fine OF from s25 to
$50 or imprisonment from thirty to
sixty days or both.
The section relating to the serving
Of game or fish at hotels, restaurants.
etc, is as follows:
Sec. IL. No game fish shall be held
in possession OF, or placed upon the
table OF any hotel, restaurant, cafe or
boarding house, or named on its menu
or bill of fare as food for its patrons.
either under the name used in this act
or In the laws of New Mexico, or under
any other name or guise whatever.
when the same shall have come from
any OF the public streams or waters
within the Territory of New Mexico:
or game known as elk, deer, antelope,
or mountain sheep, killed within the
territory; and whenever any proprie-
TOR, manager, keeper or owner of any
motel, restaurant, cafe or boarding
mouse shall import any game or game
hsh into this territory, it shall be the
duty of such proprietor. manager.
keeper or owner, Immediately to re-
port the fact to the game and fish
warden of the Territory of New Mex.
leo, or to his deputy within the county.
and to apply for permit to sell and