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DELAWARE. Trespasser with dog and gun or gun only, fine $5, or forfeits 

 gun, which is publicly sold to pay fine if not redeemed within 30 days. 



COLUMBIA (D). Trespassers for shooting or fishing liable to exemplary 

 damages $100 and $10 additional for each offence. Possession of implements 

 prima facie evidence. But owners or occupants must put up sign boards as 

 specified, in order to have the benefit of this. 



GEORGIA. Trespassers with firearms or implements guilty of misdemeanor. 

 Penalty up to $50 fine and 30 days gaol. Lands must, however, be posted, or 

 trespasser must have received warning off. Similar laws against trespassing with 

 dog, gun, or fishing implements, or with obvious intent to hunt or fish, exist in 

 Illinois, Indiana (but not as to wet or overflowed lands), Maine (only as to 

 islands in salt water), Maryland (by various county laws), Massachusetts, Michi- 

 gan (as to enclosed lands), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (as to enclosed 

 lands) ; New Hampshire (trespasser to pay $1 for each bird, besides fine) ; 

 New Jersey, New York (enclosures) ; North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl- 

 vania (fish ponds) ; Rhode Island, South Carolina (fish ponds) ; Tennesse, Ver- 

 mont, Virginia, Washington (enclosures); West Virginia, Manitoba (a mere 

 prohibition of trespass to hunt.) 



The trespasser with hunting or fishing implements is, in these States, 

 usually declared guilty of a misdemeanor, liable to fine, exemplary damages, and 

 imprisonment in default ; but usually the lands must be posted with conspicuous 

 notices, or the trespasser have been previously individually warned off. Private 

 preserves for game and fish are still more generally protected by enactments 

 making trespass criminal. 



ENACTMENTS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FISH. 



ONTARIO. 



Section 13, Cap. 32, R.S.O., 1887, provides that the Lieutenant-Governor in 

 -Council may make regulations from time to time touching the fisheries of the 

 Province, and under this section the following regulations (among others) have 

 been made : 



Non-residents, persons not domiciled in Province, are forbidden to take fish 

 except under permit from Commissioner of Crown Lands. 



No person except under lease, license, or permit, shall catch fish in water 

 adjoining ungranted Crown Lands. 



Spawning fish and spawning beds to be unmolested except by legal authority. 



By hook and line, and not otherwise, can anyone take brook trout, salmon 

 trout, whitefish, bass, pike, pickerel, maskinonge, tulibee, grayling, herring or 

 perch, except in waters leased for net fishing. 



Explosives, chemicals, etc., not to be employed in taking fish. 



Torch-light or other artificial light fishing prohibited. 



During close seasons set by lawful authority the taking and possession of 

 fish is prohibited. 

 20 (c). 



