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CHAPTER 137. 
OF THE INLAND FISHERIES. 
Sec. 1. The governor shall appoint three commissioners, to be known 
as the commissioners of inland fisheries, who shall hold their office three 
years and until their successors are appointed. 
Sec. 2. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall introduce, protect 
and cultivate fish in the inland waters of the State, and may make all 
needful regulations for the protection of such fish and shall prosecute for 
the violation of such regulations. ‘They shall cooperate with the fish 
commissioners of other states, and they shall make an annual report to 
the general assembly of their doings with such facts and suggestions in 
relation to the object for which they are appointed as they may deem 
proper. 
Src. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a copy of their regula- 
tions to be filed in the office of the town clerk of any town in which any 
waters stocked with fish under the authority of the preceding section of 
this chapter may be, and to which such regulations may apply, and shall 
also cause a copy of such regulations to be advertised in some newspaper 
published in the same county. 
Src. 4. Every person who shall violate any of the regulations made 
by the commissioners of inland fisheries under the authority of the pro- 
visions of the preceding sections of this chapter, or who shall take any 
fish, fish-spawn or any apparatus used in hatching or protecting fish, from 
any pond, lake, river or stream, stocked with, or set apart by said com- 
missioners or by private parties for the protection and cultivation of fish, 
with the consent of the town council of the town where such cultivation 
is carried on, without the consent of such commissioner, or, if the culti- 
vation of fish be carried on by a private party, without the consent of the 
person cultivating the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceed- 
ing three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or 
be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court before which 
the offender shall be tried. 
Sec. 5. Every person who catches any fish or uses any seine for 
catching fish, within one-half a mile from the mouth or outlet of any fish- 
ery set apart as is herein provided, and within any waters into which the 
waters of such fishery are let out, shall forfeit for the first offence the sum 
of fifty dollars and for every subsequent offence shall forfeit one hundred 
dollars, and in addition to the penalties herein provided, shall forfeit all 
the apparatus by him used in violating the provisions of this section. 
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