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thereof.) They may co-operate with the fish commissioners of other states, 

 and they shall make an annual report, to the general assemjjly of their doings, 

 with such facts and suggestions hi relation to the object for which they were 

 appointed as they may deem proper. Said commissioners, whenever complaint 

 is made Isy them, or either of them, for a violation of any regulation made by 

 them as aforesaid, or for \'iolation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of 

 chapters 171, 172, and 173, shall not be required to enter into recognizance on 

 such complaint or Ijecome liable for costs thereon. 



Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a copy of any regulation made 

 under the authority of the preceding section to be filed in the office of the town 

 clerk of any town in which any waters stocked with fish, or land occupied for 

 experiments under the authority of the preceding section and to which such 

 regulations may apply, may be, and shall also cause a copy of such regulations 

 to be advertised in some newspaper pulilished in the same county. 



Sec. 4. Every person who shall violate any of the regulations made by the 

 commissioners of inland fisheries under the authority of the provisions of the pre- 

 ceding three sections, or who sliall take any fish, fish-spawn, or any apparatus 

 used in hatching or protecting fish, from any pond, lake, river, or stream stocked 

 with or set apart liy said commissioners, or jiy prixate parties, for the protec- 

 tion and cultivation of fisli with the consent of the town council of the town 

 where such cultivation is carried on, without the consent of such commissioners, 

 or, if the cultivation of fish be carried ou by a private party, without the con- 

 sent of the person cultix'ating the same, or who shall trespass within the bovm- 

 daries of any land which may Ijc taken and occupied l)y said commissioners for 

 their experiments in relation to shell-fish, authorized by section two of this 

 chapter, shall l)e fined not exceeding three hundred dollars or be imprisoned 

 not exceeding six months, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of 

 the court be fore which the offender shall be tried. 



Sec. 5. Every person who shall catch any fish or shall use any seine for catch- 

 ing fish within half a mile from the mouth or outlet of any fishery set apart as is 

 herein provided, and within any waters into which the waters of such fishery 

 are let out, and every person who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 

 seven, eight, and ten of this chapter, shall forfeit for the first offence the sum 

 of fifty dollars, and for every subsequent offence shall forfeit one hundred dol- 

 lars; and in addition to the penalties herein provided shall forfeit all the appa- 

 ratus by him used in violation of the provisions of this section. 



Sec. 6. Each of the commissoners of inland fi.sheries may, personally or by 

 deputy, seize and remove, summarily if need be, all obstructions erected to 

 hinder the passage of migrating fish, or which are illegally erected to obstruct 

 or in any way to impede the growth and culture of fish. 



