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LAWS RELATING TO FISHERIES IN RHODE ISLAND. 
CHAPTER 134, TITLE XVIII. 
Section 1. Every person who shall set or draw any seine in any part 
of the river running from Warren river through the town of Barrington 
to the dividing line between the town of Barrington and the town of 
Rehoboth shall forfeit twenty dollars. 
Sec. 2. Every person who shall set or draw any seine or net in Eas- 
ton’s pond in Newport and Middletown for the purpose of catching fish, 
or shall set any such seine or net in the creeks or inlets of said pond 
above the bridge at Easton’s Beach shall be tined twenty dollars or be 
imprisoned ten days. 
Sec. 3. If any person shall set or draw any seine or net in Wicka- 
muet river within half a mile from the place called ‘‘the Narrows” he 
shall forfeit fifteen dollars. 
Sec. 4. If any person shall erect or make any weir, pot, or other 
contrivance to obstruct the course of fish across Puncatest alias Nom- 
quit Pond or any part thereof, or in any river or stream leading into or 
out of said pond at any time, he shall forfeit ten dollars. 
Sec. 5. If any person shall set any hanging or mesh net in Punca- 
test alias Nomquit pond or in any river leading into or out of said pond 
from the first day of January to the first day of August in every year, 
he shall forfeit ten dollars. 
Sec. 6. If any person shall erect or continue in Palmer’s river above 
Kelly’s bridge any weir, dam or other obstructions to prevent the free 
passage of fish up said river, he shall forfeit fifteen dollars for the first 
offence and ten dollars for every twenty-four hours any such weir, or 
dam, or other obstruction, shall be continued after the first twenty-four 
hours. 
Sec. 7. If any person not at the time an inhabitant of this State 
shall set or draw any seine or net in Palmer’s river above Kelly’s bridge 
