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Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to catch or take from the waters 

 of the Xissequogue river below a point of land bordering thereon known as " Hogs Leg " any 

 shad between the fifteenth day of June and the first day of May in each year. 



§ 2. Xo net having a smaller mesh than five inches shall be used for the purpose of catching 

 shad. 



§ 3. Xo nets shall be left in the water at any time without an attendant. 



§ 4. All trout caught while fishing for shad shall be immediately returned to the water. 



j 5. Xo shad shall be taken between twelve o'clock Saturday night and six o'clock Tuesday 

 morning. 



§ 6. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the foregoing sections shall be liable to 

 a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense. The penalty imposed by this act 

 may be sued for and recovered with cost of suit by any person in his own name before any 

 justice of the peace in the town of Smithtown ; one-half of such penalty imposed and collected 

 under this act shall be paid to the person making the complaint, the other one-half to the super- 

 visor of said town to be applied by him to the contingent fund of the town. 



§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Filed May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in the office of the secretary of state. 



AN ACT entitled an act for the preservation of the escallop fisheries in the public waters of 

 the towns of Huntington, Smithtown and Brookhaven, in Suffolk county, New York. 



The authority to pass this resolution is found in chapter four hundred and eighty-eight, 

 laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, amended by laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 three, chapter five hundred and seventy-three, section one hundred and seventy-three. 



Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons by means of dredges, tongs, 

 nets or in any other manner to take from the public waters or shores of the towns of Hunt- 

 ington, Smithtown, and Brookhaven in Suffolk county, any shellfish commonly called escallops, 

 between the first day of June and the first day of October in each year. Any person or persons 

 offending against the provisions of this section, on conviction shall be liable to a penalty of 

 fifty dollars for each offense. 



§ 2. The penalty imposed in this act may be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, by 

 any person in his own name, before any justice of the peace in said towns, when the amount 

 does not exceed the jurisdiction of such justice ; one-half of any penalty imposed and collected 

 under this act shall be paid to the person making the complaint, the other one-half to the super- 

 visor of the town, to be by him applied to the support of the poor of said town. 



§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Filed May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in the office of the secretary of state. 



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