362 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



^acandaga Fist) Hatchery. 



CHAPTER 445 OF THE LAWS OF 1888. 



AN ACT to set apart certain lands belonging to the state in the county of Hamilton, for the 



purposes of the Mill creek fish hatchery. 

 Section 1. The following described lands belonging to the state of New York and situated in 

 township number two, Totten and Crossfield's purchase, in the town of Lake Pleasant, Hamil- 

 ton county, as laid down in map two hundred andr ninety-four (new number) on file in the 

 office of the comptroller are hereby appropriated and set apart for the purpose of the Mill 

 creek hatchery, established in pursuance of chapter two hundred and ninety-three of the laws of 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, viz. : Whole lots numbers thirty-three, forty-four, fifty-three, 

 fifty-five, fifty-six, seventy-seven, twenty-nine, forty and forty-one ; part of lot number thirty- 

 two, embracing all of such lot except one hundred acres on the southerly side, twenty-six chains 

 and thirty-two links wide on the west side and twenty-six chains and thirty links on the east 

 side of said lot number thirty-two. 



§ 2. No standing timber shall be cut on any of the lands described in the preceding section 

 except such as shall be needed for building purposes, firewood and fencing lumber for such 

 hatchery. 



§ 3. No person shall take at any time and by any means whatever any trout from any of 

 the waters on such lands, nor enter upon the said lands for the purpose of fishing, nor take 

 anywhere from Mill creek or any of its tributaries any trout except by permission of the com- 

 missioners of fisheries, for the uses of said hatchery. 



§ 4. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a 

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

 the name of the commissioners of fisheries, in any court of competent jurisdiction in either the 

 county of Hamilton or Fulton, and all penalties recovered in such suits shall be paid into the 

 treasury of the state. 



CHAPTER 512 OF THE LAWS OF 1887. 



AN ACT to provide for the construction of a fishway in the State dam at Troy. 



Section 1. The superintendent of public works of this state is hereby authorized to cause 

 to be constructed, maintained and operated in the state dam across the Hudson river at Troy, 

 in such a manner as not to injure the said dam, a fishway of proper width and depth to allow 

 all fish endeavoring to migrate to the waters of the said river above the dam to pass over the 

 same; such fishway to be placed at an angle of not more than thirty degrees, and extend 

 entirely to the running water below the dam. The said fishway shall be constructed under the 

 supervision of the fish commissioners of this state, and be located at such a place in said dam, 

 and built in such manner and of such materials as said commissioners may direct. It shall be 



