LAWS RELATING TO INLAND FISHERIES. !) 



Sec. 12. No person shall, between the first Monday in October and 

 the first Monday in January, erect any weir or draw any seine or net 

 for the purpose of catching or obstructing the passage of fish at or 

 within one hundred and sixty rods of the mouth of Petaquamscut 

 River in South Kingstown; nor shall any person erect or put down 

 any weir, standing seine, or trap seine, or hoop net of any kind either 

 within or across said river at any other season of the year. 



Sec. 13. Nothing in the next preceding section shall be construed 

 to prohibit any person from using nets or fishing crafts for the catch- 

 ing of smelts; such as are commonly used in the smelt fishery between 

 the first day of February and the first day of April in every year, or 

 to prohibit the setting of gill nets for bass in said river or pond; pro- 

 vided, that such nets shall not exceed twenty fathoms in length, nor 

 be set within twenty fathoms of each other; nor south of the dividing 

 line between the lands of William Gr. Watson and George W. Crandall ; 

 nor within twenty rods of the narrows that connect the upper and 

 lower ponds; nor shall any person maintain any such standing seine 

 or net in the same place for more than twenty-four hours, if any other 

 person demands the same place for the purpose of setting a like net or 

 drawing a seine therein. 



Sec. 14. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of 

 the next preceding two sections shall be fined not less than twenty dol- 

 lars or more than fifty dollars for each offence, and shall forfeit the 

 net, seine, boat and other apparatus by him used in such violation. 



Sec. 15. Every person who shall set any trap, net, or draw any 

 seine at any time west of a straight line drawn from Quanset Point on 

 the north side of Wickford harbor to Room's Point on the south side 

 of said harbor, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than 

 twenty dollars; one-half thereof to the use of the complainant, and 

 the other half to the use of the state. Nothing in this section con- 

 tained shall be construed to prevent surface, bag or purse seine fishing 

 for catching menhaden. 



Sec. 10. Every person who shall set any trap, net, or draw any 

 seine at any time west of a line drawn from Calf Pasture Point on the 

 north side of Allen's harbor to Rocky Point on the south side thereof, 



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