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and Fisheries during the prohibited period for the purpose of 

 natural or artificial spawning or propagation. 



It is also provided that no fish whatever shall be taken, 

 either shad or other species, between twelve o'clock at night, 

 Saturday, and the ensuing midnight of Sunday, the penalty to 

 consist of the confiscation of the boats and a fine of $100. 

 Trenching upon fish-ponds is also made punishable, provided 

 due notice be given at the ponds or preserves that said 

 waters are private property. It is also enacted that no fish 

 shall be taken except with hook and line within half a mile 

 of any part of a dam or a chute in which there is now, or may 

 hereafter be, any fish-way for the passage of fish up or down, 

 the penalty for the violation of which is not to exceed $100. 

 The provisions of this section do not take effect, however, un- 

 til the first of March, 1874. 



The Commissioners are to be paid their reasonable and 

 necessary expenses for the performance of their duties, but 

 receive no salar}-. They are required to file a bond in the sum 

 of $10,000 for the faithful performance of their work. 



The Commissioners appointed under the act are Messrs. 

 H. J. Reeder, of Easton, B. L. Hewitt, of Hollidaysburg, and 

 James Duffy, of Marietta. 



OHIO FISH COMMISSION. 



Ohio is to be added to the list of states that have author- 

 ized the appointment of Fish Commissioners, and otherwise 

 provided for the preservation and increase of food fish with- 

 in their borders. The appointees as Commissioners are John 

 Hussey, of Loveland, John H. Klippart, of Columbus, and Dr. 

 Elisha T. Sterling, of Cleveland, in whose hands we are con- 

 fident the interests of the state in this direction will receive 

 careful attention. 



MICHIGAN FISHERY BILL. 



The Legislature of Michigan has just passed a law provid- 

 ing for the establishment of a Board of Fish Commissioners, 

 to consist of the Governor, and two persons (George Clark, of 

 Ecorse, and George H. Jerome, of Niles) to be appointed by 

 him. Their duty is to supervise the execution of all the laws 

 now existino: or hereafter to be made in relation to the fish- 

 eries, and to carry out the same. More especially they are to 



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