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4. To take smolts or salmon fry : or to buy, sell, 



or expose them for sale ; or to have them 

 in possession ; or to place any device or 

 engine to obstruct their passage ; or wil- 

 fully to injure them ; or to injure or disturb 

 salmon spawn ; or to disturb any spawning 

 bed in which spawn may be ; or, during 

 the annual close time, to obstruct salmon 

 in their passage to the spawning beds ; ex- 

 cepting for artificial propagation or scientific 

 purposes, cleaning or repairing a dam or 

 mill lade, or exercising a right of property 

 in the bed of the stream. (Section 19.) 



5. To take, fish for, or attempt to take, unclean 



or unseasonable salmon, or assist in doing 

 so ; or to buy, sell, or expose them for sale ; 

 or to have them in possession ; excepting 

 such as may be accidentally taken when 

 fishing if the same be forthwith returned to 

 the water with the least possible injury ; 

 and excepting those taken for artificial pro- 

 pagation or scientific purposes. (Section 



20.) 



6. To buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in 



possession salmon taken between the com- 

 mencement of the latest and the termina- 

 tion of the earliest annual close time in force 

 for any district. (Sections 21 and 22, and 

 1863 Act, Section 3.) 

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