14 Report ON INLAND FISHERIES. 
second Monday in June in every year, commencing at the rising of the 
sun and ending at the setting thereof, erect any weir or net, or draw 
any seine or net for the purpose of catching or obstructing the passage 
of fish, in any part of Point Judith pond south of a line drawn from the 
most northerly point of Strawberry Hill, on Treat Island, to the most 
northerly point of High Point in said pond. 
Sec. 20. No person shall erect any weir or set or draw any seine or 
net for the obstructing, catching or hauling of fish within any part of 
said ponds, or any branch thereof, at any time from the fifteenth day of 
August to the fifteenth day of December in every year, commencing and 
ending at the rising of the sun on both of said days. 
’ Sec. 21. No seine or net of any sort shall be used at any time with- 
_in said ponds or any branch thereof, of over one hundred fathoms long, 
nor any standing seine or net of over twenty-five fathoms in length. . 
Src. 22. No person shall set any standing seine or net at any time 
within forty rods of any place within said ponds or any branch thereof, 
where another person may have already set his standing seine or net ; 
nor shall any person maintain any such standing seine or net for more 
than forty-eight hours if any other person desires to occupy the place. 
Sec. 23. Any person violating any provision of the six sections next 
preceding shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars, and shall also forfeit the boat, seine, net and other apparatus by 
him used in such violation; one-half of said fine and forfeiture to and 
for the use of the person so complaining, and the other half to and for 
the use of the State. 
Sno. 24. Every person living without the State who shall take any 
lobsters, tautog, bass or other fish within the harbors, rivers or waters of 
this State, for the purpose of carrying them from thence in vessels or 
smacks, shall be fined ten dollars for every offence and shall forfeit all 
the fish or lobsters so taken. 
Src. 25. Every person who shall take any fish in any stream or fresh 
pond, except upon his own land, in any other way than by hovk and line, 
or who shall take or carry away any fish from any private pond, brook, 
stream or preserve, or any other place made, constructed or used for the 
purpose of breeding or growing fish therein, without the consent of the pro- 
prietor or lesseefof such pond, brook, stream or preserve, shall be punished 
by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, 
but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the taking 
of any fish from any pond or stream stocked at the expense of the State. 
Src. 26. Every person who shall take any pickerel between the first 
