Year: 1869

completed to the satisfaction of the commissioner
within the time specified, any owner or occupant
shall forfeit sum not exceeding fifty nor less than
ten dollars for every day between the first day of
May and the first day of November during which
such neglect continues.


SECT. Z. On the completion of any fshway to the
quent time he shall prescribe in writing the time
during which the same shall be kept open and free
from obstruction to the passage Of fish each year,
and copy of such prescription shall be served on
some owner occupant of the dam. The commits
sioner may afterwards change the time fixed as
he may SCI dt In the absence Of any, other regua;,
unobstructed from the first day of May to the fif-
teenth day of July, of each year. The penalty for
neglecting to comply with the provisions of this
tion any regulations made in accordance here
with shall be not less than five than twen-
y dollars for re each d that said neglect


way out of repair or needing alterations to make it
efficient they may, as in the case of new tishways
require the owner or occupant to make such repairs
or alterations; and all the proceedings in such cases.
and the penalty for neglect, shall be as provided in
the fifth and sixth sections of this act.


SECT. 8. Each of the following rivers with its
tributaries and the adjoining seacoast as far as the
same is fequented by salmon shad, aewiyes, bass
smelts, shall constitute fishery district: namely
the Presumpscot, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Georges,
Penobscot and st. Croix; the Androscoggin district
shall only extend to its junction with the Kennebec
in Merry-meeting bay. In cases of doubt, the com
missioner of fisheries may determine more exactly
the limits of any fishery district, and in of dis
pute as to Jurisdiction of wardens appointed under
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practicable and determine aforesaid; any regula-
tons made in accordance with this clause, shall be
submitted to the governor and council, who may ap
prove, amend or reject the said regulations. Any
regulations so approved or amended SHALL after pub


cation two weeks in the state paper, be deemed to
have the full force and effect of law.


Scot. TO- The governor, with the advice of the
council shall appoint persons in each fishery district
to be fish wardens, follows: One in the Presump-
district in the Androscoggn district three in
the Kennebec district, in the Georges district
three in the Penobscot district, and in the ST.
Ihn Of Tho
Penobscot districts shall have joint and several juris
dction the fisheries of their respective districts
and shall meet eta annually on the ss Tuesday ty Of Apr IL
adjourn to such time and place as they may choose
The wardens thus appointed, shall hold Office for
three years. unless sooner removed, and shall be duly
sworn. They shall make an annual report of their
doings to the commissioner of fisheries, before
the first day of November. They shall receive three
duties their accounts shall be audited by the gov
ernor and council and paid from the state treasury;
provided that in no case shall any one warden receive
one year.


SECT. H. Fish wardens shall endeavor to enforce
the laws in regard to the fisheries within their respect


i've districts shall prosecute for all offences that come
to their knowledge shall be entitled to their pay
witnesses in said cases although they complain
ants, and have right at all times to visit any DAM
or any weir or other apparatus for taking fish and
when they resisted in the discharge of their du
ties they may require the aid Of many persons
they deem necessary and any person neglecting


using to render aid when thus required shall forfeit
ten dollars.


SECT. II. There shall be between the first day of
April and the fifteenth day of July each year, a
weekly cosetime of fortyeght hours, from sunrise
each Saturday morning to sunrise on the following
Monday morning, during which no salmon shad, ale
wives or bass shall be taken from the waters covered
by this act During the weekly closetime all seines
from the water Every weir shall have in that part
thereof where the fish usually TAKEN an opening
three feet wide extending from the bottom to the top
of the WEIR and the netting other material which
closes the same while fishing shall be taken out,
ried on shore, and there remain during the weekly
closetime In case the enclosure where the fish are
taken is furnished with board floor an opening ex-
tending from the floor to the top of the weir shall be
held equivalent to extending from the bottom to the
top The penalty for the violation of this section
shall be twenty dollars for each offence.


SECT. 13. No weir hedge, set-net. any other