FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 17 
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For footnotes see page 16. 
V. LICENSES REQUIRED AND FEES THEREFOR. 
Arkansas.—Licenses are issued by the game and fish commission and by the 
circuit clerk of the State (10, 11); fees are payable to the State treasurer or circuit clerk 
of the county (23). The fee for a resident for fishing with artificial bait is $1.10; for 
a nonresident for fishing, $5, or for a single 15-day trip in the year (not including the 
right to take fish out of the State), $1.25 (17). Fishermen catching fish to sell must 
pay $25 if using hoop nets, $10 if using lines or set lines, and for each helper, $5 (19). 
ealers must pay to the State treasurer one-sixteenth of a cent for each pound of fish 
urchased in the State, this amount to be collected but one time, and from the first 
ealer purchasing (20). 
inois.—Licenses are issued by city, village, and county clerks (23). Fees for 
net fishing are as follows, the amounts in parentheses being for nonresidents: Each 
100 vards of seine, $5 ($10); dip or fyke net, $1 ($2); hoop net, 50 cents ($2); basket or 
trap net, 50 cents (?); in operation of gill or pound nets, steam tug, $25 ($200), gasoline 
launch, $15 ($50), sail or row boat, $10 ($30) (22). Clerk’s fee is 25 cents extra (23). 
Owners of property, their children and tenants, may do net fishing, without license, 
from waters wholly within their property and not connected with any open stream 
ot Gill and pound nets shall be operated from only a boat, as listed hereinbefore 
39). The fee for conducting a wholesale-fish business is $10.50 (24). The com- 
mercial mussel fishing fee is $1.25 for residents and $25.50 for nonresidents, plus in 
either case $25 if a dredge is used (55). 
Indiana.—Resident licenses to fish (and hunt) are issued by the commissioner of 
fisheries, or his agents, in Marion County, and elsewhere by clerks of the circuit 
courts; the fee is $1; owners of farm lands, their children living with them, and tenants 
may fish upon their lands without license; any person may fish in the county in which 
he resides and adjacent counties without license; children under 18 and wives of 
licensees may fish without license (2529). Nonresident licenses to fish are issued by 
clerks of the circuit court of the counties, and the commissioner, and persons appointed 
by him for that purpose; the fee is $1; children under 18, wives of licensees, and per- 
sons having hunting licenses are not required to have licenses (9366a). 
Licenses for netting in Lake Michigan are issued by the commissioner; the amounts 
range from $1 to $300, depending upon the kind of boat used, if any, and upon whether 
the fisherman is resident or nonresident. (1917, ch. aie 
Iowa.—Nonresident licenses for males over 16 years old to fish are issued by county 
auditors; thefeeis$2. (1917, ch. 168.) 
Licenses for net fishing in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers are issued by the 
State fish and game warden. The fees are as follows: Each 500 feet of seine, $10; 
und net having more than 100 feet of lead on each side, $4; pound net with less lead, 
1; each bait, dip, hoop, and fyke net, 50 cents; each 300 feet of trammel net used 
