14 LAWS RELATING TO INLAND FISHERIES. 



Sec. 4. All penalties incurred for violation of any of the provis- 

 ions of this chapter shall enure, one-half thereof to the complainant, 

 and the other half to the town where the offence is committed. 



Sec. 5. The foregoing provisions of this chapter shall be consid- 

 ered as forming a compact with the state of Connecticut, from which 

 this general assembly will not depart until the legislature of the 

 state of Connecticut shall agree with the legislature of this state to 

 a repeal thereof, alterations therein or additions thereto. 



Sec. 6. If any owner of land adjoining Pawcatuck River in this 

 state shall permit any weir, pound or other obstruction to be erected 

 or continued upon any flat or bottom of said river, whether done, 

 erected or continued by himself, servant, lessee, or any other person by 

 his privity or consent, such owner shall be liable for any such breach 

 or violation of the second section of this chapter in the same manner 

 as though the same had been committed by such owner in person. 



CHAPTER 137. 



OF THE INLAND FISHERIES. 



Section 1. The governor shall appoint three commissioners, to 

 be known as the commissioners of inland fisheries, who shall hold 

 their offices for three years and until their successors arc appointed. 



Sec. 2. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall introduce, 

 protect and cultivate fish in the inland Avaters of the state, and may 

 make all needful regulations for the protection of such fish and shall 

 prosecute for the violation of such regulations. They may cooperate 

 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 suggestions in relation to the object for which they were appointed 

 as they may deem proper. 



Sec 3. The said commissioners shall cause a copy of their regu- 

 lations to be filed in the office of the town clerk of any town in which 

 any waters stocked Avith fish under the authority of the preceding sec- 

 tion of this chapter may be, and to which such regulations may apply, 

 and shall also cause a copy of such regulations to be advertised in 

 some newspaper published in the same county. 



