98 FISH AND GAME LAWS, 
Sec. 3. The district attorney, or his deputy, of 
El Dorado county, or of Placer county, or of 
Nevada county, whichever the informer may notify 
as within the district attorney’s jurisdiction, shall 
prosecute such suits, and, upon conviction, all fines, 
damages, and penalties that may be awarded or col- 
lected under this act shall be paid one half to the 
district attorney and one half to the informer, 
share and share alike ; and it is hereby made the 
duty of the district attorney, or his appointed 
deputy, of the counties of Placer, El Dorado, and 
Nevada, to prosecute all cases arising under this 
act. 
[Enacted' 1877.] 
ACT RESTRICTING FISHING AND HUNTING 
IN AND ABOUT LAKE MERRITT, 
ALAMEDA COUNTY. 
Section 1. From and after the passage of this 
act, it shall be unlawful for any person to take, 
catch, kill, capture, or in any manner destroy, any 
fish in the waters of Lake Merritt or Peralta, in the 
county of Alameda, except by the use of a hook and 
line ; but it shall be unlawful to use any set lines, 
night lines, or trawls in said lake. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that from 
and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person to take, kill, or destroy, in any 
manner whatever, any grouse, any species of wild 
duck, crane, heron, swan, pelican, snipe, or any 
wild animal or game, of any kind or species what- 
ever, upon, in or around Lake Merritt or Peralta, 
in the county of Alameda, and within one hundred 
rods from high-water mark upon the land around 
said lake. 
^ Sec. 3. Any person violating any of the provi- 
sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
