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CHAPTER 920. 



AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 848 OF THE PUBLIC 

 LAWS, ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURxVGING AND 

 REGULATING INLAND FISHERIES." 



It is enacted hy the General Assembly as folloivs : 



Section 1. The Governor shall appoint three commissoners, who 

 shall be known as commissioners of inland fisheries, who shall hold 

 office for three years, and until their successors are appointed, whose 

 duties shall be to receive and make complaints of all violations of the 

 act relating to inland fisheries to the proper officers ; to introduce, pro- 

 tect and cultivate fishing in our inland waters, to co-operate with fish 

 commissioners of other States, and to make an annual report to the 

 General Assembly of all their doings and such facts and suggestions 

 relating thereto as may be deemed proper. 



Sec. 2- Such commissioners shall be allowed their actual dis- 

 bursements while employed on such official duty. 



Sec. 3. No person shall ta,ke any fish, contrary to the instructions 

 of the commissioners on inland fisheries, from any pond, lake or river 

 in this State which has been or may hereafter be stocked with or set 

 apart for the protection and cultivation of fish, either by the said com- 

 missioners or j)rivate parties, by and with the consent of the Town 

 Council of any town or towns in which, in whole, or in part, such lake, 

 pond or river is situated, for a period of three years, after the same 

 has been stocked, or set apart, as aforesaid, and said instruction filed 

 in the Town Clerk's office in said town or towns, and published in one 

 or more newspapers in the county or counties in wliich such pond, lake 

 or river is located. 



Sec. 4. Each of said commissioners may personally, or by deputy, 

 enforce all laws regulating inland fisheries, and may seize and remove 

 summarily, if need be, all obstructions to the passage of migratory 



