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shall immediately inform a constable or a trial justice in the town or 

 cit}' where said premises are situated, when any fish which have been 

 taken in violation of law, has been offered for sale on said premises : 

 provided^ that such clerk, superintendent or other officer shall know 

 or have reasonable cause to believe that said fish has been so taken ; 

 and for each neglect so to do, such clerk, superintendent or other offi- 

 cer shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty. 



Sect. 2G. Whoever takes or catches fishes which at any season 

 frequent fresh water, except eels and pickerel, in any other manner 

 than b}- artificially or naturally- baited hook and hand-line, hand or 

 dip net, sweep-seine or salmon-pot, shall forfeit a sum not less than 

 five dollars nor more than fifty dollars : provided, that nothing herein 

 contained shall authorize the taking or catching of trout, land-locked 

 salmon or lake trout in any other manner than b}' hook and hand-line ; 

 and provided, that towns may be allowed to permit the use of set-nets 

 for the capture of herring or alewives. 



Sect. 27. Whoever takes or catches any salmon within the limits 

 of this Commonwealth, or who buys, sells or has in possession the 

 same taken within said limits, between the first day of August and 

 the first day of Ma}', shall forfeit for each offence not less than ten 

 nor more than fifty dollars ; and whoever buys, sells or has in posses- 

 sion any young salmon less than one foot in length shall forfeit five 

 dollars for ever}- young salmon of said dimensions bought, sold or 

 had in possession. 



Sect. 28. Whoever takes or catches any trout, land-locked salmon 

 or lake trout within the limits of this Commonwealth, or buys, sells 

 or has in possession the same taken within said limits between the 

 twentieth da}- of September and the twentieth day of March in each 

 year, or takes or catches any trout, land-locked salmon or lake trout 

 with any net or salmon-pot, at any season of the year, shall forfeit 

 for each oflTence a sum not less than one nor more than twenty dollars. 



Sect. 29, Whoever catches any shad at any other season than 

 between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of .June, shall 

 forfeit for each shad, five dollars. ' 



Sect. 30. Whoever takes or catches any black bass in any of the 

 ponds or streams of this Commonwealth from the first day of Decem- 

 ber to the first day of June in each year, or at any time except with 

 naturally or artificially baited hooks and hand-line, or buys, sells or 

 has in possession any such fish taken within the limits of this Com- 

 monwealth, shall forfeit for each ofljence not less than two nor more 

 than twenty dollars. 



Sect. 31. Whoever takes or catches any smelts or white perch, in 

 any of the waters of this Commonwealth, in any other manner than 

 by naturally or artificially baited hooks and hand-lines, between the 



