

REPORT. 



To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 

 January Session, 1880; 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries beg leave to present their 

 report for the year 1879. 



The act which follows was passed March 26tli, 1879. 



NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries desire to call the attention 

 of parties interested to Chapter 751 of the Public Laws of Rliode 

 Island, as follows : 



CHAPTER 751. 



An Act in amendment of Chapter 134 of the Oeneral Statutes, "Of Certain 



Fistieries." 



(Passed March 2G, 1879.) 



It is enacted hy the General Assembly as follows: 



Section 1. There shall be between the first day of May and first day of 

 August, in each year, a weekly closetime, extending from Saturday morning at 

 sunrise to Monday morning at sunrise, during which time no fish of any descrip- 

 tion shall be taken by weirs, traps or similar contrivances, from the waters 

 covered by a line drawn from Seaconnet Point in a westerly course to the Narra- 

 gansett lower pier, and including all the waters above said line. If their be any weir, 

 trap, or other stationary contrivances, used for the purpose of catching or obstruct 

 ing the passage of fish in that part thereof, where the fish are usually taken, the 

 netting at the mouth of the same shall be floated to the surface of the water so as 

 to effectually close the mouth thereof during the weekly closetime; so that dur- 



