The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-02-01
s. FEBRUARY /, 1911
b: the Senators from Berkeley, Wi!r
liamsburg and myself.
\ BILL:


a BILL;
For the Protection of Game Fish ia
Berkeley, Clarendon and Williams
burg Counties and for the Repeal Of
Certain Laws Relating Thereto.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION /. That in the counties of
berkeley, Clarendon and Williamsburg,
for the purpose of classification, the fol-
lowing fish shall be known as game fish,
viz: Jackfsh or pickerel, pike, black
bass or pond trout, stripped bass or rock
fish, Yarmouth, redbelly. robin. Dream.
copperface or ball-breanl, banded Dream,
yeIlow-belly perch, sun perch, red fin
trout Or yellow perch. rain-bow trout.
speckled trout, flyer. crappin rock bass,
Soggle-eye and white perch.
SEC. 3 That hereafter during the
months of April, May. June and July
no person or persons shall cast, draw,
fasten or otherwise make use OF any
seine or drift net. fyke net of any other
i description. or use any other appliances
for the catching of game fish. except
hook and line ana ordinary bait, or by
spoon, or by artificial fly, or by phantom
minnow. or by artificial bait. For the
violation OF this section the party so
:violating shall be fined twenty (S20.OOl
dollars or be imprisoned thirty (30) days.
i for each offense: Provided. That this
isection shall not apply to such person
| or persons as are catching game liSh
with net or other appliances for the
purpose of stocking a pend or other
stream, and lot for commercial pur-
poses: Provided, also. That any or all
tpersons engaged in catching game fish
for the purpose Of stocking q pond or
!stream must notify the nearest magis-
trate of his Or their purpose to so catch
the FISH.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be unlawful to poisoa
the streams or waters in the county in
! any manner whatever for the purpose
OF taking ish. The muddying OF fstrea:as
or ponds, or the Introduction OF any
/, substance which results in making the
z; fish sick, so that they may be caught is
hereby declared to be poisoning in the
/: sense OF this Act. For violating this
section, the person so violating shall be
fined FIVE hundred $500 dollars. or be
imprisoned six (6) months.
SEC 4. No navieable stream n the
counties of Berkeley, Clarendon and
Williamsburg shall be obStructed by
dam or otherwise unless there be pro-
vided a fishway in same. For the viola
tion OF this section the person or cor
poration so violating shall be fined not
less than twenty-five (S25) dollars for
each day that such obstruction shall
exist without said fshway in same after
having been potifed ia writing by any
person that such obstruction exists.
SEC. 5. Any normigratory fish except
game fish, may be caught at any time
or in any manner not prohibited by this
Act. Migratory fish may be caught il
accordance with such laws US now exist
or may hereafter be enacted.
SEC. 6. That for the violation of any
provisions of this Act, not otherwise
provided for, shall, upon conviction. be
fined not less than ten dollars nor more
than twenty-five dollars, or be i:rpris-
oned for not less than ter day nor more
than thirty days, and for the violation
OF any provision OF Section 4: upon con-
victiou, be ined not less than one dollar
nor more than twenty-five dollars, or be
imprisoned for not less than one day nor
more than thirty days.
SEC. !. Such parts ofSections 524. 525,
532 and 535, of Volume ?, OF the Code
and such other Acts or parts of Acts as
conflict with the several provisions Of
this Act, are hereby repealed.
SEC. s. 1t shall be unlawful TO throw.
place or put dynamite or any explosive
10 any lake, stream or inland water in
Berkeley. Clarendon and williamsburg