The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-09-09


That all moneys collected from fines,
penalties and forfeitures under this
act shall, after deducting the per-
centage due therefrom to the war
dens and clerks, be transmitted to
the State Treasurer. who will pass
the same to the credit of the Game
and Fish Protection Fund.
Section As. Be it further enacted,
that it shall be unlawful, except as
hereinafter provided, for any person
or persons within this State to cap
ture, kill or wound any fish in any
of the streams, rivers. lakes, bayous,
or ponds of this state by means of
seine, trammel net, pound net gill
net, trap, gun, grab-hooks, poison,
lime, fish berries, gun powder, giant
powder dynamite, or in any way or
by any contrivance or device what
ever, except by means of trot line;
provided, that the taking of fishes
from ponds or reservoirs wholly on
private property or the seining for
minnows for bait shall not be deemed
to be within the inhibition of this
section. Any person or persons vio-
lating any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of misde-
meanor and upon conviction shall be
fined not less than twenty-five nor
more than one hundred dollars.
Section 46. Be it further enacted,
that it shall be unlawful for any per
son to capture and retain from said
waters winnows under a length of
four and one-half inches by means of
dip net or minnow net, not over ten
feet in length, said minnows being
taken for the purpose of being used
as bait exclusively. Any bass, perch
or trout taken in such net shall be
at once returned to the water and
set free; and it is hereby declared
to be a misdemeanor to retain or
keep any perch, bass or trout so ta-
ken by such net.
Section AZ. Be it further enacted
that it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons to capture or attempt
to capture or take from any of the
streams or other waters of this
State any of the fishes deemed to be
game fishes, tO-Wit, brook trout, rain
bow trout, black bass sometimes
called trout landlocked salmon anC
crappie, and rock bass (called BLACK
perch) in any manner whatsoever
including trotlines, rod and line, bait
ed hook, trolls, spinners and artificial
flies, on any day or days intervening
between the first day of May and the
fifteenth day of June following o.
every year, said period being hereby
constituted a closed season on game
fishes. Any violation of the provis
ions of this section shall be misde
meanor, punishable by fine of no
less than five nor more than ten dol
lars.
Section 4S. Be it further enacted
] that it shall be unlawful for an!
person or persons, or corporation II
construct, maintain or have in us,
any dam or other obstruction in o.
across any stream in this state, mad
or designed for the purpose of cap
turing fish or preventing their fire.
passage up or down the stream o
any inlet or outlet of any lake, blu
any dam constructed and used TO
Industrial or power purposes shal
not be deemed unlawful.
Section 40. Be it further enacted
that fishing for the market in tn
Cumberland, Mississippi, TENNESSEE
and Big Sandy, Obion and Forke
Deer rivers is hereby declared to b
an exception to the foregoing pre-
visions of this Act to the extent here
in indicated and taking fishes frol
said streams by means of trammt
nets, baskets, dip nets, set nets, bu
not including seines, shall be pc
mitted and shall not be deemed III
lawful but the taking of fishes
! said streams by such means sha
/ be and is hereby made strictly sui
ject to the following terms and pr
, visions:
/, Seines are at all times ar
places forbidden,
2, The closed season shall
strictly applicable to fishing in sa
rivers.
3. The provisions Of Section !
relating to the release of small ifs
es, shall be observed.
4. Every such basket or net us
in taking fish in said streams sht
n have meshes of not less than tN
n inches in width so as to permit t
escape of the smaller fishes.
5. No net or basket shall
placed or located at or within t.
hundred feet thereof, counting frc
the nearest margin thereof, nor Wi
in three hundred feet of any lock
dam of any of said rivers.
G. II shall he unlawful for anYo