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tect and to regulate the taking of shell-fish and other fish in Great Salt pond, and 

 may impose penalties therefor not exceeding twenty dollars fine and three months' 

 imprisonment for any one offence. 



Sec. 14. The electors of the town of Tiverton may, in town meeting called 

 for that purpose, make such regulations for the preservation of the fish, and may 

 exercise such control over the fisheries of Nomquit pond, within the limits of 

 said town, as they may think proper. 



Sec. 15. No person shall, between the first Monday in October and the first 

 Monday in January, erect any weir or draw any seine or net for the purpose of 

 catching or obstructing the passage of fish at or within one hundred and sixty 

 rods of the mouth of Pataquamscut river in South Kingstown, nor shall any per- 

 son erect or put down any weir, standing seine, or trap-seine, or hoop-net of 

 any kind, either within or across said river at any other season of the year. 



Sec. 16. Nothing in the preceding section shall be so construed as to pro- 

 hibit any person from using nets or fishing crafts for the catching of smelts, 

 such as are commonly used in the smelt fishery, between the first day of Feb- 

 ruary and the first day of April, or to prohibit the setting of gill nets for bass in 

 said river or pond: Provided, that such nets shall not exceed twenty fathoms in 

 length, nor be set within twenty fathoms of each other, norsouth of the dividing 

 line between lands now or formerly of William G. Watson and George W. Crandall, 

 nor within twenty rods of the narrows that connect the upper and lower ponds; 

 nor shall any person maintain any such standing seine or net in the same place 

 for more than twenty-four hours if any other person demands the same place 

 for the purpose of setting a like net or drawing a seine therein. 



Sec. 17. Eveiy person who shall violate any of the provisions of the preced- 

 ing two sections shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty 

 dollars for each offence, and shall forfeit the seine, net, boat, and other appara'tus 

 by him used in such violation. 



Sec. 18. Every person who shall set any trap or net or draw any seine at 

 any time west of a line draAvn from Calf-pasture Point on the north side of Allen's 

 harbor to Rocky Point on the south side thereof, or west of a line drawn from 

 Pojack Point on the south side of Potowomut river to Marsh Point on the north 

 side thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars ; 

 one-half thereof to the use of the complainant and one-half thereof to the use 

 of the state. 



Sec. 19. No person shall between the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth 

 day of June, inclusive of both days, or between the fifteenth day of August and 

 the fifteenth day of December, inclusive of both days, commencing at the rising 

 of the sun on both days, erect any weir or set or draw any seine or net for obstruct- 

 ing, catching, or hauling of fish within half a mile east from Point Judith ponds 

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