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such water courses; and that it shall be unlawful for any person 

 to catch or take fish, except minnows for bait, with any device 

 other than a hook and line within one-half a mile of any dam 

 constructed across any of the rivers or creeks of this State. 



§ 3. That it will be the duty of any person or persons who 

 now own or hereafter may erect any dam or other obstruction 

 across any of the rivers, creeks, streams, bayous or other water 

 courses within this State, to place therein suitable fish-ways, in 

 order that the free passage of fish up and down such waters may 

 not be obstructed; and in case the owners, operators, lessors, or 

 other persons operating, using Or controlling any dam or other 

 obstruction across any of the rivers, creeks, streams, bayous or 

 other water courses of the State, shall fail or refuse after ten 

 days' notice by the Fish Commissioners of this State, or any one 

 of them, to construct and maintain suitable fish- ways as provided 

 in this act, then the Fish Commissioners may construct or cause 

 to be constructed, suitable fish-ways, and recover in action of debt 

 in the name of the people of the State of Illinois, before any 

 justice of the peace or any court of competent jurisdiction, double 

 the cost of constructing said fish-way; said fund, in excess of the 

 actual cost, shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools 



§ 4. 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 use of spear, lime, acid, medicinal or 

 chemical compound or explosive. 



§ 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take by 

 any device or means whatsoever, brook trout from any of the 

 streams, lakes or other water courses within the State, between 

 the 15th day of July and the 1st day of April following, in each 

 year, and at no time with any device whatever, except a hook and 

 line. 



§ 6. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of 

 the preceding sections of this act shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten 

 (10) nor more than two hundred (200) dollars and cost of suit 



§ 7. Any person or persons who shall, for the purpose of fish- 

 ing, without the consent of the owner, tresp;iss upon the lands of 

 another, containing any fish pond or lake, whether natural or arti- 

 ficial, when and where the waters of such pond or lake are not 

 directly connected with any water course of this State, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined 

 in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars 

 and cost of suit for the first offense, and not less than thirty nor 

 more than two hundred dollars for the second otfense, and the 

 same for each subsequent offense as for the second offense. 



§ 8. To enforce the provisions of this act, all suits brought 

 under the same shall be brought in the name of the People of 

 the State of Illinois, and shall be brought on the complaint of any 



