320 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



to the chief fish and game protector and forester, two thousand, and to the commissioners of 

 fisheries, five hundred copies. 



§ 307. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to in any way repeal or modify 

 chapter three hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. 



When to Take Effect. 



§ 308. This act shall take effect immediately. 



ARTICLE XV.* 

 Special Provisions as to the Waters of the Thousand Islands. 



Section 320. Article to apply to certain waters of the St. Lawrence river. 



321. Protector to be appointed. 



322. Definition of black bass. 



323. Black bass, pickerel, pike, wall-eyed pike and muskallonge; close season. 



324. Fishing through the ice prohibited. 



325. Black bass, limit as to size. 



326. Black bass, limit as to catch. 



327. Fishing by certain devices prohibited. 



328. Unlawful devices and explosives prohibited. 



329. Duty of anglers to exhibit their catch. 



330. Right of protector to make search or examination. 



Article to Apply to the Saint Lawrence River between Tibbet's Point Light- 

 house and the City of Ogdensburg Only. 



§ 320. This article applies exclusively to the waters of the Saint Lawrence river lying 

 between an imaginary line drawn from Tibbett's Point lighthouse, about four miles southwest 

 from Cape Vincent to the Snake Island lighthouse, about four miles southwest from the city of 

 Kingston in Ontario, and an imaginary line drawn from the northern part of the city of Ogdens- 

 burg to the northern part of Prescott, in Ontario, situated on the opposite side of the Saint 

 Lawrence river, and to be known for the purposes of this article as "the waters of the Thousand 

 Islands." 



Protector to be Appointed. 



§ 321. The board of fisheries, game and forest is authorized to appoint a protector, to be 

 known as the protector of the waters of the Thousand Islands, whose duty it shall be to patrol, 

 under the direction of said board, the waters of the Thousand Islands, and to enforce the pro- 

 visions of this article. 



* Article XV. is an addition to chapter 974 of the Laws of 1895, as provided for by chapter 531 of 

 the Laws of 1896. 



