FISHERIES, GAME AXD FOREST LAW. 3.1 I 



upon or near the lot lines thereof, or upon or near the shores of any waters thereon, m at least 

 two conspicuous places, or by personal service of a notice containing a brief description of the 

 premises and name of the owner or of the person having the exclusive right to shoot, hunt or 

 fish thereon, and prohibiting the same, 



Laying Out Grounds for Private Parks. 



i :n. A person owning or having the exclusive right to shoot, hunt or fish on lands, or 

 lands and water, desiring to devote such lands or lands and water, to the propagation or protec- 

 tion of fish, birds or game shall publish in a newspaper printed in the county within which 

 such land or lands and water are situate a notice, once a week, for a term not less than four 

 weeks in the county where the lands so described are situated, substantially describing the same 

 and containing a clause declaring that such land or lands and water will be used as a private 

 park for the purpose of propagating and protecting fish, birds and game. Provided, however, 

 that all waters heretofore stocked by the state, or which may hereafter be stocked by the state 

 from any of the hatcheries, hatching stations, or by fish furnished at the expense of the state, 

 shall be and remain open to the public to fish therein the same as though the private park law 

 had never existed. But nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting any rights 

 now existing of persons owning lands or holding leases of private grounds, waters or parks prior 

 to the passage of this act. 



(As amd. by chap. 319 of Laws of 1896.) 



Notice to be Posted in Private Park. 



5 213. There shall be posted and maintained upon such private territory, notices or sign- 

 boards, not less than one foot square, warning all persons against trespassing thereon. Such 

 notice or signboards shall be placed not more than forty rods apart, along the entire boundary 

 of such private territory, when the same shall consist entirely of land, or when it shall consist 

 of both land and water they shall be placed so that there shall be at least one notice or sign- 

 board for every hundred acres thereof. When the private property consists of a lake, pond or 

 stream only, such notices shall be placed in at least four conspicuous places on or near the shore 

 of such lake or pond, and one of such notices shall be placed on every half mile of such stream 

 in a conspicuous place on the bank thereof. 



Notice When Territory is Fenced. 



§ 214. When such territory or any part thereof is fenced, notices or signboards shall be 

 placed on or near such fences not more than forty rods apart. 



Fish or Game when so Protected not to be Interfered with. 



§ 215. Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions for preventing trespassing or for 

 devoting lands to propagation of fish, birds and game, no person shall disturb or interfere in any 

 way with the fish or wild birds or wild animals while on the premises so protected, except with 



