16 LAWS RELATING TO INLAND FISHERIES. 



Sec. 9. The commissioners of inland fisheries may take fish from 

 the fisheries hereinbefore referred to for any purpose connected with 

 fish culture, or for scientific observation. [See section 6, chapter 282, 

 page 18, infra.] 



Sec. 10. Each of said commissioners may, in the discharge of his 

 duties, enter upon and pass through or over private property without 

 rendering himself liable in an action of trespass. 



Sec. 11. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall be allowed 

 their actual disbursements made in carrying into effect the provisions 

 of this chapter. 



CHAPTER 138. 

 GENERAL provisions for the protection of fisheries. 



Section 1. Every person who shall throw into, or deposit in, or 

 cause to be thrown into or to be deposited in any of the public tide- 

 waters of this state or upon the shores of any such tidewaters, any 

 fish offal, or any Avater impregnated with fish, and every person who 

 shall cause any deleterious substance resulting from the smelting or 

 manufacture of copper, or from other manufactures, or from other 

 sources, which is destructive to fish, or which repels them from com- 

 ing into the said public waters, or which shall do anything which 

 tends to drive them therefrom, to be emptied, deposited or run into 

 the said public waters, shall forfeit one hundred dollars. 



Sec. 2. Every vessel, craft, boat or floating apparatus of any kind 

 whatever, employed in the procuring of fish oil, or in the dressing of 

 bait for the mackerel fisheries, or the dressing of fish for other pur- 

 poses, in violation of this chapter, shall be liable for any forfeiture 

 and costs resulting from prosecution hereunder, and the same may be 

 attached on the original writ and held as other personal property at- 

 tached may be held, to secure any judgment which may be recovered 

 in any action brought to enforce any such forfeiture, and any person 

 upon view of any offence in violation of this chapter, may seize and 

 detain any vessel, craft, boat or floating apparatus, the same to be at- 

 tached for a period not exceeding six hours. 



