Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-21
No. 500, A Published June %. 1909.
CHAPTER 531. LAWS OF 1909.


CHAPTER 531, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create sections 4560a-42 to
45eoe---50, inclusive, and section 1497cm
q OF the statutes, to amend subsection
a Of section 4580a--2T: ard to repeal
sections 4560a--5, and 4565k and sections
statutes, as far as they conflict, relating
to fishing on the outlying waters.
The people OF the State OF Wisconsin, rep
resented In Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section /. There are added to the stat
utes ten new sections to read: Section
4560a-42. 1t shall be unlawful and is
hereby prohibited for any person, persons,
firm, company or corporation, to set, cause
10 be set, placed or used in the waters OF
Lake Superior:
l. A gill net having meshes less than
three and one-balf inches provided that gill
nets having meshes not less than two and
Uhree-elghths inches, stretch measure, may
be set In said waters during the months of
october November and December, solely for
the purpose of catching herring
2. Within one mile OF the main shore
thereof gill net or nets having mcshes
less than four and one-quarter inches,
stretch measure, or seine or any pound
net or nets having meshes less than four
inches stretch measure. IN the POI or crib
thereof, between July 10 and the following
18th day of September. or TO use any pound
net or seine having meshes less than two
inches stretch measure Ia the pot or crib
thereof at any time.
8. In that part OF Cheduaruegon Bay and
Lake Superior Included within the follow
ing described boundary lines, to-wit: Be-
ginning at Houghton stone quarry, Bay
Held County, from thence following the
shore line OF Cheduamegon Bay. South and
tween sections two and three 10 township
Iorty-etght North, OF Range three West,
Ashland County, lntersects the shore line,
thence north on a straight line to Long
Island, thence along the South and West
shores OF Long Island to the extreme North
west point OF said island, thence South
westerly In a straight line to the point OF
beginning; net or any kind, except gill
net or nets having meshes not less than
-FOUR and one-quarter inches. stretch meas
IRE. may be used between the frst day OF
January and the LIST day OF MAJ follow
ing; and provided that gill nets with meshes
not less than two and three-eignths inches,
stretch measure, and POUND nets With
measure, IN the pot or crib thereof, and
seines may be used IN the above bounded
waters during the months OF NoyembeT and
Jecember for the purposes OF taxing her
nse, pike and bass
4 net OF any kind. except as otherwise
SsoF'9ea oy lew, from October ] to Novem-
-. l, inclusive, In any year; Provided,
,owS'eE' II any person. persons, nrn CON-
zSats-s % corporation shall have set In such
gvaaW
go 81 such person. persons, arm, com.
or S-,v s corporation, shall be unable TO raise
yheresF f n on said date, three days OF grace
OF raIsinr sn nsil be allowed for the purpose
1sn caught therein III suSA Au 'ne
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