10 LAWS RELATING TO INLAND FISHERIES. 



or west of a line drawn from Pojack Point on the south side of Pota- 

 wamut River to Marsh Point on the north side thereof, shall be fined 

 not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars; one-half to 

 the use of the complainant and the other half to the use of the state. 



Sec. 17. No person shall from the fifteenth day of April to the fif- 

 teenth day of June, inclusive of both days, in every year, or from the 

 fifteenth day of August to the fifteenth day of December, inclusive of 

 both days in every year, commencing at the rising of the sun on both 

 days, erect any weir, or set or draw any seine or net for obstructing, 

 catching or hauling of fish, within half a mile east from Point Judith 

 ponds' breach, meaning the breach for the time being into the sea, or 

 within a point on the west side of said breach, four rods distant from 

 Joseph Champlin's fish house (so-called), or within said breach, or 

 within any channel leading to said ponds, or tiny branch thereof 

 from the sea, or within a quarter of a mile of the entrance of such 

 channel into said ponds or branches of said ponds; and when the fif- 

 teenth day of December happens on Sunday this prohibition shall con- 

 tinue to the rising of the sun on the next succeeding day. 



Sec. 18. No weir shall be erected, nor any standing seine or net 

 set across the channel, nor in Point Judith ponds within a quarter of 

 a mile from the following places, viz. : Alder Point near where Sauka- 

 tucket River flows into the said ponds; Prince's Narrows, which con- 

 nect the upper with the lower ponds; Strawberry Hill on Great 

 Island; High Point (so-called), on land of the heirs of Joseph Sher- 

 man, and Gooseberry Hole. 



Sec. 10. No person shall, between the first Monday in April and 

 the second Monday in June in every year, commencing at the rising 

 of the sun and ending at the setting thereof, erect any weir or net, or 

 draw any seine or net for the purpose of catching or obstructing the 

 passage of fish, in any part of Point Judith Pond south of a line 

 drawn from the most northerly point of Strawberry Hill, on Great 

 island, to the most northerly point of High Point in said pond. 



Sec. 20. No person shall erect any weir or set or draw any seine or 

 net for the obstructing, catching or hauling of fish within any part of 

 said ponds, or any branch thereof, at any time from the fifteenth day 



