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be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of one 

 hundred dollars for the first violation thereof and two hundred dollars for each subsequent 

 violation thereof. 



Nets to Be Licensed. 



§ 151. It shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of fisheries, game and forest 

 to prescribe rules and regulations for the purpose of granting all licenses to seines, fykes and 

 nets in water when specially permitted by this act, other than dip-nets, scap-nets and nets used 

 for taking minnows for bait and to cause a duly authenticated copy of the same to be filed in 

 the office of the secretary of state; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state 

 to print such rules and regulations in the volume of session laws for the current 

 year. Such rules and regulations shall take effect upon the first day of September, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and thereafter fishing with seines, fykes, and nets other 

 than scap-nets, dip-nets and nets used for catching minnows for bait, without a 

 license having been obtained therefor in accordance with' such rules and regulations, is 

 prohibited. Whosoever 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 one 

 hundred dollars for each violation thereof. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the 

 salt waters of the state. 



Thumping. 



§ 152. Sailing, rowing, pushing or floating in any boat or vessel on any waterway, run or 

 channel in which the waters are too deep to draw a seine in the usual way, or patroling the 

 banks of such waterway, run or channel and at the same time stamping, jumping, shouting, 

 pounding, beating, or splashing the waters, beating or pounding the banks, waters or boats 

 while a seine is set, drawn, held or floated at either end of such waterway, run or channel or 

 the sides thereof with the intent to frighten the fish out of the deep waters into such seine and 

 generally known as thumping, is forbidden. 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 fifty dollars for each violation thereof. 



Exceptions as to Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest. 



§ 153. The provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to prevent the commissioners 

 of fisheries, game and forest, or persons in their employ and under their direction from taking 

 fish with nets at such times and in such manner as they may direct for the purpose of the 

 artificial propagation of fish. 



§ 1 54. It shall be lawful to fish in the waters of Seneca lake with nets or seines, the meshes 

 of which shall not be less than a two-inch bar, from the first day of June to the thirtieth day of 

 September, both inclusive, provided that permission so to do has been first obtained and a 



