18 REpPoRT ON INLAND FISHERIES. 
Src. 6. Each of the commissioners of inland fisheries may, personally 
or by deputy, seize and remove summarily, if need be, all obstructions 
erected to hinder the passage of migrating fish, or which are illegally 
erected to obstruct or in any way to impede the growth and culture of 
fish. ; 
Sec. 7. The prohibition to the catching of fish by hook and line from 
fisheries stocked as is hereinbefore provided, shall extend and be contin- 
ued for, and during, the term of three years from and after the time when 
such fishing was first established. 
Src. 8. One-half of the penalties recovered for violation of the pro- 
visions of this chapter shall accrue to the complainant and the other half 
thereof to the State. 
Src. 9. The commissioners of inland fisheries may take fish from the 
fisheries hereinbefore referred to for any purpose connected with fish cul- 
ture, or for scientific observation. 
Sec. 10. Each of said commissioners may, in the discharge of his 
duties, enter upon and pass through or over private property without 
rendering himself liable in an action of trespass. 
Sec. 11. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall be allowed their 
actual disbursements made in carrying into effect the provisions of this 
chapter. é 
CHAPTER 138. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FISHERIES. 
Src. 1. Every person who shall throw into, or deposit in, or cause to be 
thrown into or to be deposited in any of the public tidewaters of this State 
or upon the shores of any such tidewaters, any fish offal or any water 
impregnated with fish, and any person who shall cause any deleterious 
substance resulting from the smelting or manufacture of copper, or from 
other manufactures or from other sources, which is destructive to fish, or 
which repels them from coming into the said public waters, or which 
shall do anything which tends to drive them therefrom, to be emptied, 
deposited or run into the said public waters, shall forfeit one hundred 
dollars. 
Sec. 2. Every vessel, craft, boat or floating apparatus of any kind 
whatever, employed in the procuring of fish oil, or in the dressing of bait 
for the mackerel fisheries, or the dressing of fish for other purposes, in 
violation of this chapter, shall be liable for any forfeiture and costs re- 
sulting from prosecution hereunder, and the same may be attached on 
the original writ and held as other personal property attached may be 
