FISHERIES LAW OF RHODE ISLAND, 1905. 



[Compiled by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries,] 



GENERAL I.AWS. 



CHAPTER 1. 



The jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries covers the territorial 

 limits of the State as given in the following two sections of chapter one, and 

 covers all the fisheries of the State except the oyster and scallop fisheries, which 

 are mider the jurisdiction of the shell fish commissioners. 



Section 1. The territorial limits of this state extend one marine league 

 from its seashore at high water mark. When an inlet or arm of the sea does not 

 exceed two marine leagues in width between its headlands, a straight line from 

 one headland to the other is equivalent to the shore-line. The boundaries of 

 counties bordering on the sea extend to the line of the state as above defined. 



Sec. 2. The jurisdiction of the state shall extend to, and embrace, all places 

 within the boundaries thereof, except as to those places that have been ceded to 

 the United States, or have been purchased by the United States with the consent 

 of the state. 



CHAPTER 171. 



Of Certain Fisheries. 



Section 1. Every person who shall set or draw any seine in any part of the 

 river running from Warren river through the town of Harrington, except that 

 part lying north of the Congregational church building in the said town of Bar- 

 rington, shall forfeit twenty dollars. 



Sec. 2. Every person who shall set or draw any seine or net in Easton's 

 pond in Newport and Middletown for the purpose 'of catching fish, or shall set 



