IO4 AMERICAN RIVER FISHERIES. 



SECT. 2. No persons shall take from the Connecticut river, any 

 salmon, before the fifteenth day of March, A.D. 1872, and any 

 person so taking salmon, shall pay to the treasury of the county 

 where such offeuce is committed a fine of twenty dollars for each fish 

 so taken. 



SECT. 3. All complaints for violation of this Act, and of the 

 Aot to which this Act is an addition , may be matle to the superior 

 court by the Stale's attorneys of the several counties where the 

 offences are committed, and where the nuisances exist ; and when- 

 ever the superior court is not in session, such State's attorneys may 

 make complaint to a justice of the peace in any town adjoining the 

 water at the place where such offence is committed, and such attor- 

 ney shall receive the same fees for services as for trials in superior 

 court, which fees shall be taxed as part of the costs of prosecution. 



SECT. 4. For the purposes of this Act and of all Acts regulating 

 and relating to fisheries, the rivers, streams, coves, inlets and bays 

 and sounds, and all parts thereof, within the jurisdiction of the 

 State, shall be deemed to be entirely in either county and in either 

 town adjoining said waters, at a place where any violation of this 

 Act is committed, and the State's attorneys, sheriffs, and deputy- 

 sheriffs of said counties respectively, and the constables and justices 

 of the peace of said towns respectively, shall act in relation thereto, 

 in the same manner as though said river was entirely in the county 

 to which said sheriffs, deputy-sheriffs, and State's attorneys belong, 

 or in the town to which said justices of the peace or constables 

 belong. 



SECT. 5. The Governor shall appoint three Commissioners 

 who shall hold office for one year, and until their successors are ap- 

 pointed, and whose duties shall be to make complaints of all viola- 

 tions of the Acts relating to fisheries, to the proper informing 

 officer, to consider the subject of the introduction, protection, and 

 culture offish in our waters, to co-operate with fish commissioners 

 of other States, and to make report of such facts and suggestions as 

 may be material to the Legislature. 



SECT. 6. Such Commissioners shall receive for their services, 

 the sum of three dollars per day, and their actual disbursements 

 while employed in such official duty. 



SECT. 7. The limitation of the time of taking shad and salmon 

 in the first and second sections of this Act, shall not take place 

 until the legislature of Massachusetts at its next session shall pre- 

 scribe the same limitations to the catching of shad and salmon in 

 said river as are contained in said sections. All parts of the Act to 

 which this Act is an addition and inconsistent herewith, are hereby 

 repealed. (Approved July 26 , 1867. 



