GAME LAW OF NEW YORK, 



RELATING TO TROUT. 



Sec. 13. — Any person trespassing upon lands owned or occupied by 

 another, for the purpose of shooting, hunting or fishing thereon, after 

 public notice by such owner or occupant as provided in the following 

 section, shall be deemed guilty of trespass, and shall be liable to such 

 owner or occupant in exemplary damage for each offense not exceeding 

 twenty-five dollars, and shall also be liable to the owner or occupant for 

 the value of the game killed or taken. 



Sec. 14. — The notice referred to in the preceding section shall be 

 given by publishing an advertisement particularly describing such land, 

 and forbidding such trespass in the official papers of the county, or a 

 paper published in a town where such lands are situated, for the period 

 of three weeks, and in the months of April and May in each year, by 

 sign-boards, at least one foot square, to be put up and maintained in not 

 less than two conspicuous places on the premises ; such notices to be 

 signed by or have appended thereto the name of the owner or occu- 

 pant. 



Sec. 15. — No person shall place in any fresh water stream, lake or 

 pond, without the consent of the owner, or in shore waters and estuaries 

 with rivers debouching into them, any lime or other deleterious sub- 

 stance, with the intent to injure fish ; or any drug or medicated bait, with 

 intent thereby to poison or catch fish; nor place in any pond or lake 

 stocked with and inhabited by Trout or Black Bass, any drug or other 

 deleterious substance, with intent to destroy such Trout or Bass ; nor 

 place in any fresh water, pond or stream stocked with Brook-Trout any 

 Pike, Pickerel, Black Bass or Rock Bass, or other piscivorous fish (Sal- 

 mon excepted) without the consent of the owner or owners of such lands 

 upon which such pond or stream is situated. Any person violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 shall, in addition thereto, and in addition to any damage he may have 

 done, be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars. 



