52 FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
quented by salmon, shad, and other migratory fish ; 
and if, in their opinion, there is not free passage 
for fish over or around any dam or artificial 
obstruction, to notify the owners or occupants 
thereof to provide the same, within a specified 
time, with a durable and efficient fishway, of such 
form and capacity, and in such location as shall 
be determined by the Fish Commissioners, or per- 
sons authorized by them, and such fishway must 
be completed by the owners or occupants of such 
dam or artificial obstruction to the satisfaction of 
said Commissioners, within the time specified ; and 
it shall be incumbent upon the owners or occu- 
pants of all dams or artificial obstructions, where 
the state board of Fish Commissioners require 
such fishways to be provided, to keep the same 
in repair and open and free from obstructions to 
the passage of fish at all times ; and no person 
shall wilfully destroy, injure, or obstruct any such 
fishway, or at any time take or catch any salmon, 
shad, or other migratory fish or trout, except by 
hook and line, within three hundred feet of any 
fishway required by the state board of Fish Com- 
missioners to be provided and kept open, or at 
any time take or catch any such fish in any man- 
ner within fifty feet of such fishway ; and every 
person violating any of the provisions of this act 
is guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person 
found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions 
of this act must be fined in a sum not less than 
one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county 
jail of the county in which the conviction shall be 
had, not less than fifty days, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment ; and all fines imposed and 
collected for any violations of the provisions of this 
act shall be paid into the state treasury to the 
credit of the fish commission fund. 
[Enacted 1872; last amended 1903.1 
