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fish, illegally used, except dams, mills and machinery, at the expense 

 of the persons using or maintaining the same. 



Sec. 5. Whoever uses any seines, or hook and line, or net of any 

 description for catching any fish, within one-half of a mile of the 

 mouth or outlet of any river, legally set apart by the commissioners 

 of internal fisheries, for the propagation or cultivation of fish, during 

 the time said commissioners may legally prohibit the catching of fish 

 in said rivers, shall forfeit, for the first offence, the sum of fifty dol- 

 lars, and for every subsequent oifence, the sum of one hundred dollars, 

 and in each case shall also forfeit the apjjaratus thus unlawfully used 

 and the fish captured. 



Sec. 6. Said commissioners may take or cause to be taken, any 

 fish at any time or manner, for purposes connected with fish culture, 

 or with scientific observation. 



Sec. 7. Each of said commissioners, may, in the discharge of his 

 duties, enter upon and pass through or over, private property, without 

 rendering himself liable in an action of trespass. 



Sec. 8. Whoever shall violate the provisions of section three of 

 this act, shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be 

 imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding three months, 

 or by both such fine and imprisonment, and ail complaints for the 

 infraction of this act shall be made within sixty days of the occur- 

 rence thereof. 



Sec. 9. One half of the money recovered, as a penalty, in any 

 case, arising under the laws relating to inland fisheries, shall be paid 

 to the person making the complaint in the case in which the same is 

 recorded, and the remainder to the State. 



Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 

 hereby repealed. 



