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men, or those who fish from Bergen Point to below Pier- 

 mont : — 



Chapter 530, Laws of New York. — An act for the protec- 

 tion and preservation of sahnon in the waters of this State. 

 Passed June 6th, 1887 ; three-fifth being present. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, do enact as follows : — 



Section i. No person shall at any time kill or catch, or 

 attempt to kill or catch, salmon in the waters of this State 

 with any device or in any manner, save that of angling with 

 line or rod, held in hand. 



§ 2. No person shall catch, or attempt to catch or kill, any 

 salmon in said waters save only from the first of March until 

 the fifteenth day of August in each year. 



§ 3. Any person using nets in that part of the Hudson 

 river within the jurisdiction of this State, in fishing for other 

 fish allowed to be taken therein by nets, shall upon catching 

 any salmon immediately return and restore the same to the 

 water without injury. The foregoing provisions are not to 

 apply to the operations of State or public hatcheries or to the 

 artificial propagation of said fish by State or public authority. 



§ 4. Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions 

 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in 

 addition, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars 

 or one day's imprisonment for each dollar of fine ; any in- 

 former to receive one-half of said fine. Actions for any viola- 

 tion of this act may be brought before any justice of the 

 peace in any county which borders on the river or water op- 

 posite where the offence was committed, without regard to 

 channel boundaries. 



§ 5. All acts inconsistant with this act are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Gravesend bay. — The largest number of salmon taken by 

 one man, that has come to my knowledge, was taken by John 

 B. Denyse, of Unionville, Kings county, N. Y., who fishes in 



