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of August to the fifteenth day of December in every year, commencing 

 and ending at the rising of the sun on both of said days. 



Sec. 21. No seine or net of any sort shall be used at any time 

 within said ponds or any branch thereof, of over one hundred fathoms 

 long, nor any standing seine or net of over twenty-five fathoms in 

 length. 



Sec. 22. No person shall set any standing seine or net at any time 

 within forty rods of any place within said ponds or any branch there- 

 of, where another person may have already set his standing seine or 

 net; nor shall any person maintain any such standing seine or net in 

 the same place for more than forty-eight hours if any other person 

 desires to occupy the place. 



Sec. 23. Every person violating any provision of the six sections 

 next preceding shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more 

 than fifty dollars, and shall also forfeit the boat, seine, net and other 

 apparatus by him used in such violation; one-half of said fine and for- 

 feiture to and for the use of the person so complaining, and the other 

 half to and for the use of the state. 



Sec. 24. Every person living without the state who shall take any 

 lobsters, tan tog, bass or other fish within the harbors, rivers or waters 

 of this state, for the purpose of carrying them from thence in vessels 

 ox smacks, shall be fined ten dollars for every offence and shall forfeit 

 all the fish or lobsters so taken. 



Sec. 25. Every person who shall take any fish in any stream or 

 fresh pond, except, upon his own land, in any other way than by hook 

 and line, or who shall take or carry away any fish from any private 

 pond, brook, stream, preserve, or any other place made, constructed 

 or used for the purpose of breeding or growing fish therein, without 

 the consent of the proprietor or lessee of such pond, brook, stream or 

 preserve, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or 

 by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment; but nothing herein contained shall 

 be construed to authorize the taking of any fish from any pond or 

 stream stocked at the expense of the state. 



Sec. 20. (As amended by chapter 495, passed June 15, 1875; chap- 



