lakes, sloughs, bayous, or other watercourses within the jurisrlie- 

 tion of this State by the use of 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 otlier watercourses within this State, between the fifteenth 

 (lay of July and the first day of April following, in each year, and 

 at no lime with any device whatever except a hook and line. 

 • § (t. 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 nor 

 more than twb hundred dollars (S2()0) and costs of suit. 



§ 7. Any person or persons shall for the purpose of ti'^hing, 

 without ^he con^ent of the owner, trespass upon the land of an- 

 other, containing any fish pond or lake, whether natural or artifi- 

 cial, when and where the walers of such ])ond or lake are not di- 

 rectly connected with any of the watercourses of this State, hhall 

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

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

 dollars, and costs of suit, for the first offense, and not less than 

 thirty nor more, than two hundred do lars for the stcon<l offense, 

 and the same for each subsequent offense as lor the second offt-nse. 



§ 8. To enforce the piovisions of this act all suits brought under 

 the same shall be in the name of the people of the State of Illi- 

 nois, and shcill be brought on the complaint of any person or per- 

 sons, showing by affidavit that some section of this act has been 

 violated, giving the names of the person or persons violating, if 

 known: if not known, such affidavit i-lntll state by some peison or 

 persons whose name or names are unknown, and such complaint 

 shall be made before any justice of the peace of the county in 

 which, such violation has betn made. 



§ 9. Where such violation is allegtd to have bten committed upon 

 that portion of a stream or watercourse which may be the divid- 

 ing line between two counties, then the ci mplaint may be made to any 

 justice of the peace of either of such counties. 



§ 10. If the justice before whom ^uch complaint shall be made 

 shall be satisfied that there is reasonable cnuse to justify the mak- 

 ing of such complaint, he shall issue his warrant directed to the 

 sheriff or constable of such county, commanding him forthwith to 

 arrest and bring before him, or in his absence, before some other 

 justice of the peace within such county, the person or persons al- 

 leged to have been guilty of violating any of the sections of this act. 



§ 11, Whenever any person or persons shall be brought before 

 any justice of the peace in the manner provided for in this iict it 

 shall be the duty of such justice to hear and determine the com- 

 plaint. The person or persons so charged may demand a jury at 

 any time before the commencement of the trial, and the case shall 

 be tried as in cases before justices in civil cases, and judgment 

 shall be for acquittal or conviction of the defendant or defendants 

 in the case, in case a jury is called, the form of the verdict shall 

 be, if for conviction, " we, the jury, find the defendant guilty and 



