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day of April and the first day of June in each year ; or any trout between 
the first day of September and the first day of March in each year, shall 
forfeit twenty dollars. 
Src. 27. All actions for the violations of the provisions of the preced- 
ing two sections, shall be commenced within thirty days after the com- 
mission of the offence, and not afterwards. 
Src. 28. If any person shall by any seine or stop net, or otherwise 
obstruct the channel leading from the sea into Ward’s Pond and up 
through said pond on each side of Watermelon, Gooseberry or Larkin’s 
_ Islands, he shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. 
Src. 29. Every person who shall erect any dam, weir or other ob- 
struction across Mill Cove in Warwick, or from the mouth of said cove 
to the pond of fresh water that runs into said cove, or who shall keep up 
any dam or weir or other obstruction already therein made, and any owner 
or occupant of lands adjoining said Mill Cove or the stream leading from 
said pond into said cove, who shall permit any such obstructions to be 
erected or continued in or upon said cove or stream, whether done, 
erected or continued by himself or other persons adjacent to his land at 
any time, between the first day of March and the first day of November 
in every year, without leaving open through such dam or weir a sufficient 
way at least four feet in width, for the fish to pass, shall forfeit fifty dol- 
lars for each offence. 
Sec. 30. Every person who shall fish in said cove, except with a hook 
and line on Saturday or Sunday, or who shall catch or hinder any ale- 
wives coming down said Mill Cove or said stream, or shall therein at any 
time set any weir or device to prevent the passage of the fish, shall forfeit 
ten dollars for each offence. 
Src. 31. Every person who shall set or draw any seine or net in said 
Mill Cove, or off from the mouth thereof to Long Meadow Rocks, or from 
the mouth thereof to the pond of fresh water that emties into said cove, 
between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of June, shall for 
each offence forfeit fifty dollars, and the boat, seines and apparatus by 
him used in the commission thereof. 
Sec. 32. All forfeitures under this chapter shall, where there is no 
other provision made to the contrary, accrue one-half thereof to the use 
of the town where the offence shall be committed, and the other half to 
the use of the person sueing for the same. 
