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STATE OF NEW YORK. 



r*ist)vav>s in 3t. Lawrence and Franklin Counties. 



CHAPTER 498 OF THE LAWS OF 1895. 



AN ACT to provide for the construction of fish-slides or fishways through private dams in the 

 counties of Saint Lawrence and Franklin. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. All and every person or persons owning or holding any mill dam or dams except 

 in the Oswegatchie river, in and above the natural dam at Gouverneur, in Saint Lawrence 

 county, upon any river located in Saint Lawrence or Franklin counties, shall construct in, or 

 connect with, every such dam or dams, a slide, apron, waste-gate or other passage, sufficient to 

 admit of all fish as usually enter the mouth of such river, in the spring of the year, to pass by, 

 through or over the said dam or dams ; which said slide, apron, waste-gate or other passage, 

 shall be kept constantly open and unobstructed from the time said river or stream shall be cleared 

 of ice in the spring, until the first day of June in each year; provided, that the keeping open of 

 such slide, apron, waste-gate or other passage shall not cause a want of water for the use of any 

 mills or machinery connected with, or depending upon any such dam or dams. 



§ 2. Any and every person or persons, who now own or hold or hereafter becomes the 

 owner or holder of such dam or dams, and who shall after January first, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-six, neglect or refuse to supply such dam or dams with sufficient slide, apron, waste-gate 

 or other passage, for the passage of fish by, through or over the said dam or dams, or to keep 

 said slide, apron, waste-gate or other passage open and unobstructed, shall be liable to a penalty 

 of five dollars for every day he so neglects or refuses. 



§ 3. All the provisions of the fish and game law, not inconsistent herewith, shall apply hereto. 



§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Pisl) and (iamc Protectors and Foresters. 



J. Warren Pond, Chief Protector, 



William Wolf, Clerk to Chief, 



John E. Leavitt, Assistant Chief, 



M. C. Worts, Assistant Chief, 



Sebastian Hesbach, Oyster Protector, 



Edgar Hicks, Oyster Protector, . 



John Ferguson, Assistant Oyster Protector, 



J. L. Ackley, . 



F. S. Beede, 



George Carver, . 



S. T. Clock, 



T. H. Donnelly, 



L. S. Emmons, . 



Ira Elmendorf, . 



Albany, N. Y. 



Waterford, N. Y. 



Johnstown, N. Y. 



Oswego, N. Y. 



Ozone Park, N. Y. 



West New Brighton, N. Y. 



Patchogue, N. Y. 



Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y. 



Keene Valley, Essex County, N. Y. 



Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y. 



Bay Shore, Suffolk County, N. Y. 



Perry, Wyoming County, N. Y. 



Oneonta, Otsego County, N. Y. 



Brodhead, Ulster County, N. Y, 



