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Adirondack Hatcljerv 



CHAPTER 320 OF THE LAWS OF 1884. 



AN ACT to establish a fish hatchery in the Adirondack forest. 



Section 1. The commissioners of fisheries are hereby authorized and directed, as soon as 

 possible after the passage of this act, to erect a fish hatching establishment at some convenient 

 point in the Adirondack forest, to be selected by said commissioners, for the purpose of restocking 

 the lakes and streams of said forest with trout and other fish natural to that locality, and stocking 

 such other streams as the commissioners may deem necessary. 



§ 2. The treasurer shall pay to the commissioners of fisheries, upon the warrant of the 

 comptroller, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which 

 sum is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act. 



(See Laws 1885, ch. 85.) 



CHAPTER 85 OF THE LAWS OF 1885. 



AN ACT to grant the use of certain state lands for the purposes of the Adirondack fish 

 hatchery. 



Section 1. The lands belonging to this state, known as lots number four, five and six, in 

 township twenty of great lot number one, Macomb's purchase, in the county of Franklin, 

 on which has been located, pursuant to chapter three hundred and twenty of the Laws of 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the Adirondack fish hatchery, are hereby appropriated to the 

 use of such hatcher\- ; but no standing timber shall be cut on such lots except such as shall be 

 needed for building purposes and for firewood for such hatchery. 



§ 2. The lands mentioned in the first section of this act, shall be in the care of the commis- 

 sioners of fisheries, and no person shall be permitted to fish in the waters of Little Clear pond, 

 nor in its outlet, nor in any other waters on such lands, nor to enter on the same for the purposes 

 of fishing without the consent or by the direction of the commissioners of fisheries; but the 

 said waters shall be held by the said commissioners solely as reservoirs for breeding fish, 

 and nurseries for young fish, and for experimental purposes in the business of fish culture. 



§ 3. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the second section of this act shall forfeit 

 a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, by the 

 said commissioners, in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county of Franklin, and 

 the penalties recovered shall be paid into the state treasury. 



