LAWS RELATING TO INLAND FISHERIES. 15 



Sec. 4. Every person who shall violate any of the regulations 

 made by the commissioners of inland fisheries under the authority 

 of the provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter, or who 

 shall take any fish, fish-spawn or any apparatus used in hatching or 

 protecting fish, from any pond, lake, river or stream, stocked with, or 

 set apart by said commissioners or by private parties for the protec- 

 tion and cultivation of fish, with the consent of the town council of 

 the town where such cultivation is carried on, without the consent of 

 such commissioners, or, if the cultivation of fish be carried on by a 

 private party, without the consent of the person cultivating the same, 

 shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, 

 or be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or be both fined and im- 

 prisoned, in the discretion of the court before which the offender shall 

 be tried. 



Sec. 5. Every person who catches any fish or uses any seine for 

 catching fish, within one-half a mile from the mouth or outlet of any 

 fishery set apart as is herein provided, and within any waters into 

 which the waters of such fishery are let out, shall forfeit for the first 

 offence the sum of fifty dollars and for every subsequent offence shall 

 forfeit one hundred dollars, and in addition to the penalties herein 

 provided, shall forfeit all the apparatus by him used in violating the 

 provisions of this section. 



Sec. 6. Each of the commissioners of inland fisheries may, per- 

 sonally or by deputy, seize and remove summarily, if need be, all ob- 

 structions erected to hinder the passage of migrating fish, or which 

 are illegally erected to obstruct or in any way to impede the growth 

 and culture of fish. 



Sec. 7. The prohibition to the catching of fish by hook and line 

 from fisheries stocked as is hereinbefore provided, shall extend and be 

 continued for, and during, the term of three years from and after the 

 time when such fishery was first established. [Amended. See chap- 

 ter 282, section 2, page IT, infra.] 



Sec 8. One-half of the penalties recovered for violation of the 

 provisions of this chapter shall accrue to the complainant and the 

 other half thereof to the state. 



