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through any of the counties thereof, or possessed for that purpose, except when accompanied 

 by the owner. Possession thereof by a common carrier or by any person in its employ then 

 actually engaged in the business of such common carrier unaccompanied by the owner shall 

 constitute a violation of this section by such common carrier. Whoever shall violate or attempt 

 to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in addition 

 thereto shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each violation and ten dollars for 

 each fish so caught or possessed. 



Black Bass, Oswego Bass, Pickerel, Pike or Wall-Eyed Pike ; Close Season. 



§ 1 10. Black bass or Oswego bass, shall not be fished for, caught, killed or possessed except 

 from the thirtieth day of May to the thirty-first day of December, both inclusive, and shall not 

 be fished for, caught or killed in Lake George or Schroon lake, except from the first day of 

 August to the thirty-first day of December, both inclusive, and shall not be fished for, caught or 

 killed in the Schoharie river or in Foxes creek within three years from the thirty-first day of 

 May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, except in the month of August. Pickerel, pike, or wall- 

 eyed pike, shall not be fished for, caught or killed or possessed except from the first day of May 

 to the thirty-first day of January, both inclusive, except as provided in section one hundred and 

 forty-one. Provided, however, that the commissioners of fisheries, game and forest shall have 

 power to permit the taking or destruction of pickerel at any time in the waters inhabited by 

 trout. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Saint Lawrence between Tibbet's 

 point lighthouse and the city of Ogdensburgh. Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in additon thereto shall 

 be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each fish so caught, killed or possessed. Every 

 person fishing in the Schoharie river or in Foxes creek, or having fish in his possession caught 

 in either of said waters, shall, whenever requested by any fish and game protector, or by any 

 sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, game constable or police constable, permit such officer to 

 inspect and examine the fish taken by him or in his possession or control or in the boat, basket, 

 creel, lock-up, or other thing occupied or possessed by him, and in case of his refusal to permit 

 such inspection or examination he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each 

 such refusal, and such officer making such request shall have power, and he is hereby 

 authorized, without a search-warrant, to at once proceed and make such inspection and 

 examination of said fish, boat, basket, creel, lock-up or other thing in his possession or control, 

 and to use such force as may be necessary for such purpose. Such refusal, if in the open 

 season in said waters, shall be presumptive evidence that such person so refusing had inten- 

 tionally taken from said waters, in said open season, and kept and not returned thereto, one 

 black bass less than eight inches in length, in violation of this article, and if in the closed season 

 in said waters, that he had taken one black bass from said waters during such closed season, in 

 violation of the provisions of this section. 



(As amd. by chap. 531 of Laws of 1896.) 



