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Sec. 4. Every person who shall violate any of the regulations made by the 

 commissioners of inland fisheries under the authority of the provisions 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 poTid, lake, river, or 

 stream stocked with or set apart by said commissioners or by private parties, 

 for the protection and cultivation of fish with the consent of the town council 

 of the town where sucli cultivation is carried on, without the consent of such 

 commissioners, or, if the cultivation of fish be carried on by a private party 

 without the consent of the person cultivating the same, shall, upon conviction, 

 be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding 

 six months, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court 

 before vvhicli 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 fishery 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 ofience the sum of fifty dollars, and for every 

 subsequent offence shall f(>rfeit one hundred dollars, and, in addition to the 

 penalties herein provided, shall forfeit all the apparatus by him used in violat- 

 ing the provisions of this section. 



Sec. 6. Each of the commissioners of inland fisheries may personally or bj'' 

 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 fish- 

 eries stocked as is hereinbefore provided, sliall extend and be continued for and 

 during the term of three years from and after the time when such fishery was 

 first established. 



Sec. 8. One half of the penalties recovered for violation of the provisions 

 of this chapter shall accrue to the complainant, and the other half thereof to 

 the state. 



Sec. 9. The commissioners of inland fisheries may take fisli from the fish- 

 eries hereinbefore referred to, for any purpose connected with fish culture, or 

 for scientific observation. 



Sec. 10. Each of said commissioners may, in the discliai'ge of his duties, 

 enter upon and pass through or over private property, without rendering him- 

 self liable in an action of trespass. 



Sec. 11. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall be allowed their actual 

 disbursements, made in carrying into eflect the provisions of this chapter. 



