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FISH LAWS OF ILLINOIS. 



An Act to encourage the propagation and cultivation and to secure 

 the protection of fishes in all waters under the jurisdiction of the 

 State 0/ Illinois. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

 represented in the General Assembly : That no person or persons 

 shall place or cause to be placed or erected, any seine, weir, net, fish, 

 dam or other obstruction in or across any of the rivers, creeks, ponds, 

 streams, lakes, sloughs, bayous, or other water or water courses within 

 the jurisdiction of this State, in such a manner as will obstruct the 

 free passage of fish up and down and through such water or water 

 courses, and it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or take fish, 

 except minnows for bait, with any device or means other than a hook 

 and a line, within one-half mile of any dam constructed across any of 

 the rivers or creeks or other water courses within the jurisdiction of 

 this State. 



That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time, 

 to catch or kill any fish in any of the rivers, creeks, ponds, lakes, 

 sloughs, bayous or other water courses within the jurisdiction of this 

 State, by the use of lime, spear, acid, medical or chemical compound 

 or explosives. 



That it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or kill any fish in 

 or upon any of the lakes or rivers within the jurisdiction of this State 

 with any device or means when such waters are covered with ice. 



That it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or kill or attempt 

 to catch or kill any fish with any trammel net, seine or other devices 

 and as a seine in or upon any of the rivers, creeks, streams, ponds, 

 lakes, sloughs, bayous or other water courses within the jurisdiction 

 of this State. Nor shall the meshes of any weir, seine, basket or trap 

 of any net or seine used for catching fish, except for catching min- 

 nows for bait, be less than two inches square: 



Provided, however, that seining shall be lawful and allowed be- 

 tween the first day of July in each year, and the 15th day of April in 

 the following year, with seines, the meshes of which shall not be less 

 than two inches square, in such rivers or streams as are used for navi- 

 gation within the jurisdiction of this State, and also in the navigable 

 bays or lakes connected with such navigable streams within the juris- 

 diction of this State, and not extending beyond the overflowed bottom 

 of such rivers or streams: Provided, also, that it shall be lawful for 

 the fish commissioners or persons authorized by them to take fish in 



