12 Report ON INLAND FISHERIES. 
on Thursday, Friday or Saturday of each week, or if any person shall 
set or draw any seine or net in said river above said bridge on Sunday 
or between the setting and rising of the sun on any day, he shall forfeit 
for each offence fifteen dollars. 
Sec. 8. If any person not at the time an inhabitant of this State 
shall set or keep, or cause to be kept or set within any of the waters or 
upon or within three miles of any shore of this State, more than two 
pots or nets for the catching of lobsters at any one time he shall forfeit 
twenty dollars for each offence. 
Sec. 9. If any person shall lift or raise any pot or net, set for the 
catching of lobsters, without the permission of the owner thereof he 
shall forfeit ten dollars. 
Sec. 10. The electors of the town of New Shoreham may in town 
meeting, called for that purpose, enact such ordinances as they may 
deem proper, to protect and regulate the taking of shell and other fish 
in Great Salt pond, and may impose penalties therefor not exceeding 
twenty dollars fine and three months imprisonment for any one offence. 
Sec. 11. The electors of the town of Tiverton may in town meet- 
ing, called for that purpose, make such regulations for the preservation 
of the fish, and may exercise such control over Nomquit pond within 
the limits of said town, as they may think proper. 
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 catching 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; provided, 
that such nets shall not exceed twenty fathoms iu length, nor be set 
within twenty fathoms of each other; nor south of the dividing line 
between the lands of William G. Watson and George W. Cradell, 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 setiing a like net or drawing 
a seine therein. 
