RIVER FISHERIES. IO3 



" That if any person shall erect or maintain any dam or weir upon 

 the Connecticut or Merritnack rivers, or upon the Pemigewasset or 

 Ammonoesuck or Winnipisiogee rivers, or Baker's river, without 

 providing a suitable fishway over or through the same, which shall 

 be approved in writing by the Fish Commissioners, and be kept open 

 during the months of May and June, in each year, he shall forfeit 

 and pay, for each day's continuance of said dam without such fish- 

 way, the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by indictment, for the 

 use of the county in which the offence is committed. Provided, that 

 this law shall go into effect whenever, and not before, suitable fish- 

 ways for the passage of sea-fish over the dams on said river or 

 rivers, below the boundary of this State, shall have been commenced ; 

 which fact is to be determined by the proclamation of the governor." 

 (Approved July 1, 1805.) 



The followiug is the Act of Connecticut touching the investigation 

 by the Coast Survey ; also the Act referred to in this Report, and 

 which regulates the fishing : 



(Private Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State 

 of Connecticut, May session, 1867. Page 254.) 



" Resolved by this Assembly, That the fish commissioners who 

 may be appointed by his excellency the Governor be, and are, hereby 

 authorized to take steps necessary to procure information through 

 the superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, in all matters 

 pertaining to the fishing interest ; to learn, as- far as possible, what 

 general laws govern fish along our coast in regard to propagation, 

 migration, &c. ; provided, however, that the investigation of (the) 

 same shall not be attended with any special outlay from the State 

 treasury." (Approved July 27, 1867.) 



[Chapter III.] 



An Act in addition to " An Act for Encouraging and Regulating 

 Fisheries." Be it enacted, fyc. : 



SECT. 1. No person shall take from the Connecticut river any 

 shad, at any other time thjin between the fifteenth day of March and 

 the fifteenth day of June in each year ; and no person shall set or 

 draw any net or seine for the purpose of taking fish in said river, at 

 any other time than between the rising of the sun on Monday 

 morning and the setting of the sun on Saturday evening of each 

 week ; and every person who shall at any other time, take any shad, 

 or set or draw any net or seine, in said river, or aid or assist 

 therein, shall forfeit the sum of one hnndred dollars to the treasury 

 of the State ; provided, that nothing in this section shall apply to 

 taking of fish by order of the commissioners for the purpose of arti- 

 ficial or natural propagation of the same. 



