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ever the fifteenth day of December happens on Sunday this prohibition shall 

 continue to the rising of the sun on the next succeeding day. 



Sec. 20. No weir shall be erected, nor any standing seine or net set, in any 

 part of Chariest own pond, Quonochontaug pond, or Babcock's pond, other- 

 wise known as Brightman's pond, nor across the channel, or in Point Judith's 

 ponds within a quarter of a mile from the following places, namely: Alder Point 

 near where Saukatucket river flows into said ponds; Princes narrows, which 

 connects the upper with the lower ponds; Strawlierry hill on Great Island; 

 High Point, so-called, on lands of the heirs of Joseph Sherman, and Gooseberry 

 •Hole. 



Sec. 21. No person shall, between sunset on the first Monday in April and 

 sunrise on the second Monday in June, erect any weir or net or draw any seine 

 or net for the purpose of catching or obstructing the passage of fish in any part 

 of Point Judith pond south of a line dra^\^l from the most northerly point of 

 Strawberry hill on Great Island to the most northerly point of High Point in 

 said pond. 



Sec. 22. No person shaU erect any wier or set or draw any seine or net for 

 the obstructing, catching, or hauling of fish within any part of said ponds or any 

 branch thereof, at any time lietween sunset on the fifteenth day of August and 

 sunrise on the fifteenth day of December. 



Sec. 23. No seine or net of any. sort shall be used at any time with-n said 

 ponds or any branch thereof, of over one hundred fathoms in length, nor any 

 standing seine or net of over twenty-five fathoms in length. 



Sec. 24. No person shall set any standing seine or net, at any time, within 

 forty rods of any place within said ponds or any l^ranch thereof where another 

 person may have already set his standing seine or net, nor shall any person 

 maintain any such standing seine or net in the same place for more than forty- 

 eight hours if any other person desires to occupy the place. 



Sec. 25. Every person violating any provision of the preceding six sections 

 shall l:)e fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and shall 

 also forfeit the boat, seine, net, and other apparatus by him used in such viola- 

 tion, one-half of said fine and forfeiture to the use of the person complaining and 

 one-half thereof to the use of the state. 



Sec. 26. Every person living without the state who shall take any lobsters, 

 tautog, bass, or other fish within the harbors, rivers, or waters of this state, for 

 the purpose of carrying them thence in ^•essels or smacks, shall be fined ten dol- 

 lars for every offence, and shall forfeit all the fish or lobsters so taken. 



Sec. 27. Every person who shall take any fish in any stream or fresh pond, 

 except upon his own land, otherwise than bj^ a single hook and line, or who shall 

 take or carry away any fish from any private pond, brook, stream, preserve, or 



