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any fire-arm, for the purpose of shooting, contrary to the provisions of this 
act, or shall shoot at any bird or animal thereon, shall be deemed guilty of 
trespass, and, in addition to the damages, shall be liable to a penalty of ten 
dollars. 
POISONING FRESH-WATER STREAMS. 
Sec. 12. No person shall place in any fresh-water stream, lake, or pond, 
without the consent of the owner, any lime or other deleterious substance, 
with intent to injure fish ; nor any drug or medicated bait, with intent there- 
by to poison or catch fish; nor place in any pond or lake stocked with or in- 
habited by trout, black bass, pike, pickerel, or sunfish, any drug or other dele- 
terious substance, with intent to destroy such trout or other fish. Any per- 
son violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and shall, in addition thereto, and in addition to any damage he may 
have done, be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars. 
BUILDING AND MAINTAINING DAMS. 
Src. 18. Every person building or maintaining a dam upon the rivers emp- 
tying into Lake Ontario, the River St. Lawrence, or Lake Champlain, which 
dam is higher than two feet, shall likewise build and maintain, during the 
months of March, April, May, September, October, and November, for the 
purpose of the passage of fish, a sluice-way in the mid-channel at least one 
foot in depth at the edge of the dam, and of proper width, and placed at an 
angle of not more than thirty degrees, and extending: entirely to the running 
water below the dam, which sluice-way shall be protected on each side by an 
apron at least one foot in height, to confine the water therein. 
SPECKLED BROOK TROUT. 
Sec. 14. No person shall at any time, with intent so to do, catch any speck- 
led brook trout or speckled river trout with any device save only with a hook 
and line; and no person shall catch any such trout, or have any such trout in 
his or her possession, save only during the months of April, May, June, July, 
August, and September, under a penalty of five dollars for each trout so caught 
or had in his possession ; but this section shall not prevent any person or cor- 
poration from catching trout in waters owned by them to stock other waters 
belonging to them. But the counties of Kings, Queens, and Suffolk shall be 
exempted from the provisions of the above section so far as to allow the tak- 
ing or catching of trout in the counties last named during the month of March. 
SALMON-TROUT. 
Sec. 15. No person shall take or have in possession any salmon-trout be- 
tween the 15th day of October and the Ist day of February in each year, un- 
der a penalty of five dc!lars for each fish so taken and had in possession. But 
this section shall not apply to the waters of Otsego Lake. 
BLACK BASS OR MASKALONGE. 
Sec. 16. No person shall take or have in possession any black bass or mas- 
