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than oue dollar nor more than twenty dollars for the first offence, and 

 not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for any subsequent 

 offence. 



Sect. 20. Any person legally engaged in the artificial culture and 

 maintenance of fishes may take them in his own waters how^ and 

 when he pleases, and ma}' have them in his possession for purposes 

 properly connected with said culture and maintenance, and may at all 

 times sell them for these purposes, but shall not sell them for food at 

 seasons when their capture is prohibited by law. 



Sect. 21. Whoever, between the fifteenth of April and the fif- 

 teenth of December in each year after this year, uses any sweep-seine 

 or hand or dip-net in the waters of the Connecticut, Westfield, Deer- 

 field, Miller's, Merrimack, Nashua or Housatonic Rivers, or their tribu- 

 taries, having a mesh which stretches less than five inches when new 

 and dry, shall forfeit for the first offence twenty -five dollars and for 

 every subsequent offence fifty dollars ; and in each case shall also for- 

 feit the apparatus thus unlawfully used and the fish captured. 



Sect. 22, Whoever uses any sweep-seine .or combination of sweep- 

 seines in such a manner as at any moment to close or seriously ob- 

 struct more than two-thirds of the width of the stream at the place 

 where it is used ; and whoever dela3-s or stops in paying out or haul- 

 ing any sweep-seine within one-half mile of a point where such seine 

 has been hauled within an hour, shall be liable to the same penalties 

 and forfeitures set forth in the preceding section : provided^ that this 

 section shall not apply to the seines used in the smelt fishery ; and 

 provided^ farther, that none of the provisions of this section shall af- 

 fect the fisheries for shad and alewnves in Taunton Great River. 



Sect. 23. Whoever at any time obstructs with a salmon-pot more 

 than one-half of a waterfall, channel or rapid, or sets, uses or main- 

 tains in any of the waters of this state a salmon-pot the diameter of 

 which is more than two feet, or who, when the taking of salmon is 

 forbidden bv law, sets, uses or maintains in an}' of such waters, an\" 

 salmon-pot whatever, shall forfeit said salmon-pot and all fish cap- 

 tured, and shall pa}' ten dollars for the first offence and twenty dollars 

 for every subsequent offence. 



Sect. 24. Whoever takes salmon, shad or alewives in any of the 

 waters of this Commonwealth except the Connecticut, Taunton 

 Great, Newmasket and Merrimack Rivers, or their tributaries, in any 

 other manner than by naturally or artificially baited hook and hand- 

 line, on any day of the week but Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 

 S^urday, shall forfeit for each offence the penalties prescribed for 

 taking these species of fish at seasons prohibited by law. 



Sect. 25. Every clerk, superintendent or other ofHcer having 

 charge of a market, provision store or other place where fish are sold. 



