336 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



CHAPTER 1006. 

 AN ACT IN RELATION TO TRESPASS ON LAND. 



Section 1. Whoever shall enter upon the land of another for the purpose 

 of either shooting, trapping, or fishing when the same shall be conspicuously- 

 posted by the owTier or occupant with notices that shooting, trapping, or fishing 

 is prohibited thereon, or whoever shall without right mutilate, destroy, or re- 

 move any such notice, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars. 



Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, 

 and this act shall take effect July 1st, 1902. 



CHAPTER 1132. 



AN ACT PROHIBITING THE TAKING OF FISH OF ANY SPECIES 

 FROM THE WATERS OF GORTON'S LAKE, SO-CALLED, IN THE 

 TOWN OF WARWICK, R. I., BEFORE APRIL 1, 1906. 



Section 1. Every person who shall take fish of any species from the waters 

 of Gorton's Lake, so-called, in the town of Warwick, before the first day of 

 April, A. D. 1906, shall be fined not exceeding one doUar for the first offence, 

 and not to exceed ten dollars for each subsequent offence. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 1225. 



AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF PICKEREL AND IN ADDITION TO 

 CHAPTER 171 OF THE GENERAL LAWS, ENTITLED "OF CERTAIN 

 FISHERIES." 



Section 1. Every person who catches or takes from any of the waters of 

 this state or has in his or her possession any pickerel less than ten inches in length 

 shall be fined five dollars for each such offence; but any person catching or taking 

 any pickerel less than ten inches from any of the waters of this state and immedi- 

 ately returning the same alive to the water from which taken shall not be sub- 

 ject to such fine. The possession of any such pickerel not of the prescribed 

 length shall be 'prima facie evidence to convict. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon and after its passage. 



