12 LAWS RELATING TO 1XLAXI) FISHERIES. 



ter 540, passed April 19, 1876; and chapter 678, passed April 12, 

 1878.) Every person who shall take any trout between the fifteenth 

 day of August and the first day of March in each year, shall forfeit 

 twenty dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 27. All actions for violations of the provisions of the pre- 

 ceding two sections shall be commenced within thirty days after the 

 commission of the offence, and not afterwards. 



Sec. 28. If any person shall by any seine or stop net, or otherwise 

 obstruct the channel leading from the sea into Ward's Pond and up 

 through said pond on each side of Watermelon, Gooseberry or Lar- 

 kin's islands, he shall forfeit not less than five nor more than tAventy 

 dollars. 



Sec. 29. (As amended by chapter 677, passed April 12, 1878.) 

 Every person who shall erect any dam, weir, or other obstruction 

 across Mill Cove in Warwick, or from the mouth of said cove to the 

 pond of fresh water that runs into said cove, or such streams as run 

 into said pond, or who shall keep up any dam, or weir, or other ob- 

 struction therein made, and any owner or occupant of lands adjoining 

 said Mill Cove or the stream leading from said pond into said cove, 

 who shall permit any such obstruction to be erected or continued in 

 or upon said cove or stream, whether done, erected, or continued by 

 himself, or other persons, adjacent to his land, at any time between 

 the first day of March and the first day of November in any year, 

 shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 30. Every person who shall fish in said cove, except with a 

 hook and line, on Saturday or Sunday, or who shall catch or hinder 

 any alewives coming down said Mill Cove or said stream, or shall 

 therein at any time set any weir or device to prevent the passage of 

 the fish, shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 31. (As amended by chapter 677, passed April 12, 1878.) 

 Every person who shall set or draw any seine or net in said Mill Cove, 

 or off from the mouth thereof to Long Meadow Rocks, or from the 

 mouth thereof to the pond of fresh water which empties into said 

 cove, between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of June, in 

 any year, or who shall take any alewives from said pond, or streams 



