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FOREST AND STREAM. 



{Am. 11, 1887. 



birds or animals having been illegally taken or killed within this 

 State, shall be punished by line of twenty dollars. "Chap .276, Sec. 

 10. 



"Chapter ninety -two of the Public Statutes, chapter thirl y-six 

 of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and all 

 acts and parts of acts inconsistent, herewith are hereby repealed." 

 Chap. 270. Sec. 11. 



"Whoever hunts, chases, or kills a deer within the counties of 

 Plymouth or Barnstable, except his own tame deer kept on bis 

 own grounds, shall forfeit for every such offense one hundred 

 dollars." Acts of 1883. Chap. 169. 



"The provisions of section 6 of chapter 276 of the Acts of the 

 year 1886, shall not apply to the trapping or snaring of ruffed 

 grouse, commonly called partridge, hares or rabbits by an owner 

 of land upon bis land, or by a member of the family of such owner 

 if authorized bv sur-h owner, between the first day of October and 

 the first day of January." Acts of 1887, Chap, 800. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



"Whenever the owner of any land shall conspicuously post on 

 the same, notices that shooting or trapping is prohibited thereon, 

 it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon such land for the 

 purpose of shooting or trapping, without permission of the owner 

 thereof." Acts of 1884, Chap. 808, Sec. 1. 



"Game artificially propagated and maintained upon lands, 

 posted as above, shall be the exclusive property of the person 

 propagating and maintaining the same, but such person shall not 

 sell such game for food at seasons when its capture is prohibited 

 by law." Acts of 1S84, Chap. 808, Sec. 2. 



'"Whoever offends against any of the provisions of this act shall 

 be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars." Acts of 1884, 

 Chap. 308, Sec, 3. 



SPECIAL LEGISLATION. 



Buzzard's Bay. — Drag, set, or gill-nets, purse or sweep-seines, not 

 to be 

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with rights .... 



alewifo fisherv in influent streams. Acts of 1886, Chap. 192; and 

 Acts of 1887, Chap. 197. 



Barnslable and Marsbpee.— No seine or drag-net to be used in 

 Barnstable Harbor, Osterville Harbor, Popponessett Bay, or any 

 waters of the towns of Barnstable or Marsbpee. No person, not 

 an inhabitant of the town of Marsbpee, is allowed to fish in any of 

 the waters of the town except in Hambhn's Pond, and the trout 

 fisherv in Popponessett Bay. without written permit from the 

 Selectmen of the town. Acts of 1885, Chap. 264. 



Edgartown and Cottage City.— Seines, mesh or gill-nets (except 

 for mackerel), not to be used within three miles from the shore. 

 Acts of 1886, Chap. 234. 



Nantucket, Tuekcrnuck, and the Gravelly Islands.— Wildfowl, 

 shove, marsh and beach birds, not to be shot from boats. Acts of 

 1886, Chap. 246. 



Plum Island Bay.— No seine or net to be used having a mesh of 

 less than two and one-half inches. Smelts not to be taken, sold, or 

 exposed for sale (taken in Pluru Island Bay), between February 

 14 and June 1. Acts of 1S87, Chap. 105. 



Westport.— Purse-nets and seines not to be used, except for the 

 taking of mackerel, in certain waters of the town of Westport. 

 Acts of 1887, Chap. 193. 



North River, in the County of Plymouth.— Seines or mesh-nets 

 are not to be used except as provided under Chap. 44, Acts of 1881. 

 Acts of 1SS3, Chap. 76. 



No seine or seines over three hundred and eighty-five feet in 

 length, and no mesh-net over three hundred and fifty feet in 

 length, to be used in North River. Acts of 1884, Chap. 199. 



Connecticut River. — No fish to be taken within two hundred 

 yards of any fishway on the Connecticut River or its tributaries. 

 Public. Sta Lutes. Chap. 91. Sec. 34. 



Gill-nets not to be used. Public Statutes, Chap. 91. Sec. 35. 



Merrimac River.— No fish to be taken within four hundred 

 vards of any fishway. Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 34. 



Gill-nets not to be used. Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 35. 



New York. 



AN ACT FOE THE PRESERVATION OP GAME IN THE COUNTY OP 

 WEST0HE8TER. 



The people of the county of Westchester, represented in the 

 Board of Supervisors, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. It shall not be lawful to kill any partridge or grouse, 

 quail, robin, 'snipe, woodcock, lark, rabbit, or gray squirrel in 

 the couaty except during the month of November in each year. 



Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful to sell or offer for sale any nart- 

 tridge or grouse, quail, robin, snipe, woodcock, lark, rabbit or 

 gray squirrel killed in the county of Westchester. 



Sec. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions in the two 

 foregoing sections shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars for each 

 and every partridge or grouse,quail, robin, snipe, woodcock, lark, 

 rabbit or gray squirrel killed or offered for sale in violation of the 

 foregoing sections of this act, 



Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for any citizen of the county to arrest 

 any individual violating Sections 1 and 2 of this act and take him 

 before the nearest justice of the peace of the county, Who, upon 

 complaint being made of such violation of either of Sect ion 1 and 

 2 of this act, and trial had according to the practice in the courts 

 of justices of the .neace, and conviction of such person so found 

 violating the provisions of either of Sections 1 and 2, the justice 

 shall impose the fine mentioned in Section 3, together with the 

 cost of prosecution, upon such* person so found guilty, and in 

 default of the payment of such fine and costs the justice shall 

 commit the offender to the county jail for a period of ten days, 

 or until such fine and costs are paid. 



New Jersey. 



(As compiled by the Passaic County Fish and Game Protective 

 Association.) 



Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 

 of New Jersey, that any member of any society for the protection 

 of game and fish, organized under the laws of this Stat e, shall be 

 empowered to make arrests of any person or persons who may be 

 found violating any of the provisions of this act, or infringing 

 anv of the laws of this State made for the protection of game and 

 fish, and bring them before a magistrate for examination.— Pa m- 

 Iihlct Lmvs of New Jersey, Session of 1878, -page -293. 



SYNOPSIS OF LAWS. 



The foUowing is a synopsis of the laws in relation to fish and 

 game in this State: 



Game. Open Season. Penalty. Law. 



Quail Nov. 1— Jan. 1 $15.00. . . . 1883, p. 34. 



Partridge Nov. 1-Jan. 1 15.00. . . .1883, p. 24. 



Rabbit Nov. 1- Jan. 1 15.00 . . . 1883. p. 24. 



woodcock \ gjf£3£! let 15 -°°- • • - 1881 ' p- m - 



Rail Sept. 1-Dee, 1 5.00. . . .1881, p. 126. 



Reed Bird Aug. 25— Dec. 1 5.00. . . .1881, p. 126. 



Squirrel Oct. 1-Jan. 1 15.00. . . .1886, p. 312. 



Fish. 



Black Bass May 30-Nov. 1 25.00. . . . 1880, p. 26-311. 



Trout March 1-Sept. 1. . . j ^ ^jjjjg 8 ' {■ Rev'n 1,330. 



Pike May 1— March 1 ".....'.... Rev'n 1,330. 



Pickerel May 1— March 1 " Rev'n 1,330. 



All insectivorous birds (except the English sparrow) arc pro- 

 tected, together with their eggs and nests ; penalty, §5. For orna- 

 ment or apparel, 850. Laws of 1885, p. 271. 



Fish wardens, constables and police officers may serve warrants 

 in proceedings to enforce game or fish laws. 1885, p. 98, 



Fish Wardens and members of societies are authorized to arrest 

 persons found violating any of said laws, and bring such persons 

 before a magistrate for examination. 1878, p. 293, 



Penalties may be enforced before justices of the peace, or before 

 police magistrates or district courts. 1885, p. 98. 



Fish Wardens are appointed by the fish commissioners, one in 

 each countv, to enforce the fish and game laws. Rev'n, p. 457 : 05, 

 and 1885, p. 131. 



Associations may be formed by ten or more citizens over the age 

 of 21 years, 1879, p. 169. 



Taking game with trap or other device prohibited. Penalty, 

 §15. Except taking alive for scientific purposes or by members of 

 societies to keep over winter. Rev'n, p. 455 : 52. Having trapped 

 game in possession, $15. 1886, p. 53. 



Fishing with nets above tide water prohibited. Penalty, 10 days 

 imprisonment or $20 fine, or both. Black bass can never be taken 

 with nets. 1881, p. 234. 



Set lines prohibited in waters inhabited by bass, pickerel, pike, 

 trout or perch. Rev'n. p. 1,339, and 1881, p. 23b 



Sunday shooting prohibited. Rev'n, p. 450 : 14. 



Sunday fishing prohibited. Rev'n, p. 450 : 15; 



Trespassing on private grounds to fish, after public notice posted 

 adjacent to pond, stream or spring, $100 and damages to ownei-j 

 lessee or occupant. Rev'n, p. 452 : 86. 



Fishing in private pond within three years after the same has 

 been stocked. Damages to owners, three months imprisonment 

 or fine not less than $25 nor more than $100, or both. Rev'n, p. 

 456 : 57, 



Person trespassing with gun. Penalty, $5 to owner, on convic- 

 tion before a justice, action in trespass. Rev'n, p. 448 : 1. 



Non-residents shall not hunt or fish without complying with the 

 by-laws of game protective societies organized under laws of New 

 Jersey. Ponalty, $50. Imprisonment if not paid. 



Lists of members of societies to be filed with county clerks and 

 certificates given. 1878, p. 293. 



Non-residents trespassing with gun may be apprehended by 

 owner (who has same power as constable for that purpose), and 

 shall forfeit $15 and gun. Rev'n, p. 448 : 3 and 9. 



No person shall infringe game laws on his own land, Rev'n, p. 

 455 : 53. (See exception above as to fishing.) 



Having black b£ ' 

 ment or $20 fine, c 



Having ruffed g 



Be 



in possession out of season, ten daysimprison- 

 oth. Rev'n, p. 1,339. 



Lse in possession from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1, $15 fine. 



days 



close of season allowed for disposing of quail in 

 possession. Rev'n. p. 453 : 22. 



Hunting rabbits with ferrets prohibited. Penalty, $15 ; imprison- 

 ment if not paid. Rev'n, p. 450 : 19. 



European pheasants, partridges and grouse, protected for three 

 years from March 22, 1886. $25. 



Allowing any substance that will kill fish to be discharged into 

 water inhabited by fish. Misdemeanor. Two vears or 82,000, or 

 both. 1886,118. 



Bass not to be taken under two inches ; trout, six inches, Pen- 

 alty, $25. Second offense, in any case where penalty is $25, pen- 

 alty, $100. 1880, 252. ' )* 



\m mxi §h er $shmg. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 



SALMON OF THE DUNGARVON. 



DURING the present season a stimulus has been given 

 to fishermen to seek out new fields of sport, owing 

 to the completion of a railway from Frederic ton, N. B., 

 to Chatham, which for a great part of the distance fol- 

 lows the valley of the Southwest Miramichi, into which 

 the Renous River empties at a distance of about eighty- 

 five miles from Frederioton. The latter river has three 

 large tributaries, the Dungarvon and the North and South 

 Branches. There are probably more than thirty lakes on 

 these streams which head liigh up among wild and 

 romantic forests, where the settler's axe has never 

 sounded and where from the base and sides of many a 

 hill the water, springing pure and cold, creates such 

 streams and pools as trout and salmon love to revel in. 



All of these streams having been leased for ten years 

 to the Renous and Dungarvon Fishing Club, a Frederic- 

 ton organization, Messrs, Loggie and Tennant, two of the 

 members, were deputed to examine and report upon 

 them. They have Just returned to Fredericton from this 

 mission after having spent about a fortnight upon the 

 waters. The chief part of their time was occupied in the 

 investigation of tbe Dungarvon, which is reached at a 

 distance of fourteen miles from the railway, leaving it 

 near Doaktown . The Dungarvon was explored by them 

 to a distance of forty-seven miles from its mouth. For 

 this purpose they made use of two canoes, each poled by 

 two men. They found it necessary to make but one port- 

 age in the whole of this distance, and that but a trifling 

 one. The stream they found well stocked with salmon , 

 grilse and trout. They succeeded in taking twenty-five 

 grilse, two salmon and more trout than they could take 

 care of. Besides this they hooked and lost five salmon 

 and fifteen grilse. They found the dusty-miller and the 

 yellow-bodied flies with mallard wing the best. 



The salmon of Dungarvon are very lively, they will run 

 from 10 to 151bs, , although one of the wardens caught one 

 which weighed 201bs. 



During their excursion Messrs. Loggie and Tennant saw 

 very many first-class pools, in one of which they counted 

 ten salmon at a time, Edward Jack. 



Fredericton, New Brunswick, 



WASHINGTON AN ANGLER. 



DR. GEORGE H. MOORE, of the Lenox Library— or 

 as he prefers to be known in the present circum- 

 stances, plain ''George H. Moore, member of the Am- 

 mauskeag Fishing Club" — has just written and privately 

 printed an interesting monograph entitled "Washington 

 as an Angler, with Extracts from his Diaries, 1787-89." 

 Heretofore, says the New York Times, Dr. Moore has 

 been chiefly known to the public as a scholarly librarian , 

 deeply informed respecting scarce Americana, first edi- 

 tions of famous authors, and curious and rare copies of 

 the Bible, "Paradise Lost," "The Pilgrim's Progress," 

 etc. ; but it appears now that his name belongs also on the 

 fist of eminent fishermen. In writing this pamphlet he 

 has conferred an honor on his fellow anglers which must 

 have been wholly unexpected by them, for to the list of 

 Presidents who were fishermen he has added the name of 

 Washington. The selections from the first President's 

 diary by which he does this have not heretofore been pub- 

 lished. They certainly offer interesting reading. Dr. 

 Moore dedicates the little pamphlet to Washington's latest 

 successor in the following pleasing way: 

 To Grrover Cleveland, President of the United States: 



It is known to me that there have been skillful fisher- 

 men, more than one, among the Chief Magistrates of the 

 nation. Your immediate predecessor has left an unsur- 

 passed record among them, and it is with no ordinary 

 pleasure that those of us who profess the faith and follow 

 the precepts of "The Complete Angler" have been assured 

 that you are inclined to indulge in similar recreation be- 

 times. No good fisherman was ever a bad man, and his- 

 tory will bear out the assertion that the best Presidents 

 have been the best fishermen. No one of the many 

 biographers of the first President of the United States 

 has done justice to the character of Washington in this 

 important feature, and the present publication of extracts 

 from his diaries is intended to be a timely tribute to his 

 fame as a man among men, a fisherman among fisher- 

 men, in wliich it will be no disparagement to you to 

 share. In the first century of this nation's fife he was 

 the first and you have been called the last President. I 

 trust that the beghining of the new era will find as good 

 a fisherman as you are in office, and that the line may 

 continue to stretch out. like that of the blood-boltered 

 Bauquo, till the crack of doom. George H. Moore. 

 Lenox Library, July, 1887. 



The article itself is of sufficient public interest to be 

 given here in full. It is as follows: 



MR Sparks, in his life of Washington, has mentioned 

 the report of tradition that he displayed in his boyhood a 

 passion for active sports and a fondness for athletic 

 amusements which he did not relinquish in mature life. 

 Other writers have repeated this general statement, but 



no one has pointed out his claim to be recognized as "a 

 Brother of the Angle." Among his manuscripts hitherto 

 unpublished he has left a very interesting record of his 

 recreations at a period of his life when he was engaged in 

 a service hardly less important to his country than that 

 of his military career. Without him there w^ould have 

 been no United States to need a Constitution, and with- 

 out him no Constitution would have been formed or 

 established. He was the savior of his country in peace 

 as well as in war. As President of the Federal Conven- 

 tion at Philadelphia, in the summer of 1787, he was 

 punctually in his place during the arduous deliberations 

 of that renowned assembly. After a very close applica- 

 tion to business for more than two months the convention 

 appointed a committee of detail to whom they referred 

 the results of their previous action, with orders'to prepare 

 and report them in the form of a constitution. The con- 

 vention then adjourned on Thursday, the 20th day of 

 July, until Monday, the 6th day of August, 1787. 



It was duly reported in the newspapers of the day that 

 on "Monday last [July 80, 1787] his Excellency General 

 Washington set out for Moore Hall, in order to visit his 

 old quarters at the Valley Forge." 



Moore Hall was the ancient stone mansion of William 

 Moore, who has been characterized as "the most conspicu- 

 ous and heroic figure in the county of Chester" in his day 

 and generation. The building is still standing, overlook- 

 ing the Schuylkill and, three miles distant, the Valley 

 Forge. Judge Moore, who was born in 1699, died in 1783, 

 leaving a widow who survived him several years. An 

 advertisement , in the Pennsylvania Gazette of Feb. 2, 

 1791, offered— 



"Moore Hall. To be rented. Mansion house, farm and 

 mill, in the township of Charlestown, in the county of 

 Chester, situated on the River Schuylkill, distant twenty- 

 three miles from Philadelphia. Two hundred acres. 

 Mill on a never-failing stream called Pickering. Feb. 1, 

 1791." 



This ancient homestead, known in 1787 as "the Widow 

 Moore's," w-as the objective point of Gen. Washington's 

 outing when he set out to visit his old quarters at the 

 Valley Forge. What a flood of recollections must have 

 overwhelmed him as he fullfiUed this purpose and re- 

 viewed those scenes of past trials, sorrow and distress, in 

 the great light of patriotic hope after the hours of triumph! 

 The contrast must have been more impressive even than 

 that presented in the suggestions of his visit to Lexington 

 — neglected by historians — when, in his first vacation as 

 President of the United States, he "viewed the spot on 

 which the first blood was drawn in the late glorious war" 

 where 



"Once the embattled farmers stood 

 And fired the shot heard round the world." 



But historic places and reminiscences were by no means 

 the only thing in view upon this excursion — perhaps not 

 the main thing. What it all was cannot be better told 

 than in Gen. Washington's own brief sententious records 

 of each day: 



''Monday, 30th July. 

 "In company with Mi*. Governr Morris went into the 

 neighborhood of the Valley Forge to a Widow Moore's 

 a-fishing, at whose house we lodged. 



''Tuesday 31st [July.] 

 "Before breakfast I rode to the Valley Forge and over 

 the whole Cantonment & Works of the American Army 

 in the Winter of 1777-8, and on my return to the Widow 

 Moore's found Mr. & Mrs. Rob. Morris. Spent the day 

 there fishing, &c, & lodged at same place. 



" Wednesday, August 1. 

 "Returned abt 11 o'clock with the above company to 

 Philadelphia. 



"Friday, 3d Aug., 1787. 



"Went up to Trenton on a Fishing Party with Mr. & 

 Mrs. Robt Morris & Mr. Govt. Morris. Dined and lodged 

 at Colo Sam Ogden's. In the evening fished. 



'Saturday, 4th [Aug., 1787.] 



"In the morning and between breakfast and dinner 

 fished. Dined at Gen. Dickinson's and returned in the 

 evening to Colo Ogden's. 



'■'Sunday 5th [Aug., 1787.] 



"Dined at Colo Ogden's and about 4 o'clock set out for 

 Philadelphia — halted an hour at Bristol, and reached the 

 city before 9 o'clock." 



These were very notable fishing parties. The compan- 

 ions of Washington were old, tried and constant friends, 

 always true and never found wanting. 



Gouverneur Morris, of New York, one of the noblest of 

 her sons, a great man and a good citizen, who could truly 

 say that the welfare of his country was his single object, 

 during a conspicuous public career. He never sought,, 

 refused nor resigned on office, although there was no de- 

 partment of Goverment in which he was not called to act; 

 and it was the unvarying principle of his life that the 

 interests of his country must be preferred to every other 

 interest. Such a man was Gouverneur Morris, the inspired 

 penman of the Federal Constitution. 



Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania, the great financier of 

 the Revolution, whose services to his country have never 

 been justly appreciated, for his biography has never been 

 justly written. 



Mrs. Robert Morris, whose charming face, in the most 

 beautiful and well-preserved portrait of a woman ever 

 painted by Gilbert Stuart, smiles on the vain effort of the 

 writer to tell what is the real secret of its winning grace 

 and lasting impression on every visitor to the gallery of 

 the Lenox Library, which is now its permanent home,, 

 and of wdiich it is one of the principal ornaments. 



The Widow Moore, the loyalty and devotion of whose 

 husband is the best testimony to" her merits. He has left 

 the record in his will — "happy woman, a rjattern of her 

 sex, and worthy the relationship she bears to the Right 

 Honorable and noble family from whence she sprang. " 



Gen. Philemon Dickinson, a distinguished officer of the 

 New Jersey line, a brother of that famous writer and 

 patriot who was the author of the "Farmer';? Letters," 

 both "Petitions to the King," and the "Declaration of the 

 Continental Congress on taking up Arms in 1775." 



Col. Samuel Ogden, the brother-in-law of Gouverneur 

 Morris, and, like Dickinson, a worthy representative of 

 that grand army of the Revolution, whose practical 

 lessons of disinterested patriotism are so full of wisdom 

 and rich in instruction to every true-hearted American. 



Truly this was a goodly company for any place or pur- 

 suit, with much of profitable entertainment therein for 



