REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 29 
An Act InN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 174 OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF 
RHODE ISLAND, ‘‘OF THE INLAND FISHERIES.” 
[Passed March-29, 1901.] 
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows : 
SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 174 of the General Laws is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 
“Seo, 2. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall introduce, protect 
and cultivate fish in the inland waters of the state, and may make all 
needful regulations for the protection of such fish, and shall prosecute for 
the violation of such regulations and of the laws of the state concerning 
inland fisheries. (They may in their discretion, from time to time, make 
experiments in planting, cultivating, propagating, and developing any and 
all kinds of shell-fish; and for the purpose of so doing may from time to 
time take, hold, and occupy, to the exclusion of all others, in one or more 
parcels, any portions of the shores of the public waters of the state or 
land within the state covered by tide-water at either high or low tide, not 
within any harbor line and which is not at the time of such taking under 
lease as a privgte and several oyster fishery: Provided, that the land so 
held and occupied at any one time shall not exceed three acres. Said 
commissioners upon taking such land shall forthwith give public notice 
thereof by advertisement in some newspaper in the county in which said 
land is situated, which advertisement shall contain a description of said 
land: they shall also forthwith notify the commissioners of shell fisheries 
of such taking and shall transmit to them a description of said land, and 
shall also stake out or otherwise mark the bounds of said land. Said 
commissioners may make all needful regulations for the protection of the 
land so taken and of all animal life and other property within the lines 
thereof and shall prosecute the violations thereof.) They may co-operate 
with the fish commissioners of other states, and they shall make an annual 
report to the general assembly of their doings, with such facts and sug- 
gestions in relation to the subject for which they were appointed as they 
may deem proper. Said commissioners, whenever complaint is made by 
them or either of them for a violation of any regulation made by them as 
aforesaid, or for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of 
chapters 171, 172, and 173, shall not be required to enter into recognizance 
on such complaint or become liable for costs thereon.” 
Sec. 2. Section 3 of chapter 174 of the General Laws is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 
“Src. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a copy of any regulation 
made under the authority of the preceding section to be filed in the office 
of the town clerk of any town in which any waters stocked with fish, or 
land occupied for experiments under the authority of the preceding section 
and to which such regulations may apply, may be, and shall also cause a 
copy of such regulations to be advertised in some newspaper published in 
the same county.” 
