CLOSED SEASON FOR FOX HUNTING IN ELBERT, 
MADISON, AND OGLETHORPE COUNTIES. 
An Act to prohibit the hunting, following hounds in pursuit 
of, trapping, killing or destroying in any manner, fox in the 
County of Elbert, State of Georgia, except during certain sea¬ 
sons of the year, and to provide a penalty for violation thereof, 
and for other purposes. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the 
same, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be 
unlawful, for any person to hunt or follow hounds, or other dogs, 
in pursuit of, or to kill or in any manner destroy any fox in the 
County of Elbert, in the State of Georgia, between the dates of 
February first, and September first inclusive. 
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, 
it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or catch or maim by 
trapping, any fox in the County of Elbert in said State at any¬ 
time. 
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That, any person violating any of the provisions of this Act 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and 
the same are hereby repealed. 
Approved August 18, 1919. 
(Same Law applies in Madison and Oglethorpe Counties.) 
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FISH LAWS 
Criminal Code 1911 
Section 600. No person shall inhabit, occupy, or reside in any 
vessel, ark, or flat on any river of this State, which shall be en¬ 
gaged in the lawful commerce of said river in the carriage of 
goods or produce to or from market, unless owned by the pro¬ 
prietors of the shores, or their lessee; provided, nothing in this 
section shall be construed to prevent the owners of the land on 
said rivers, or their lessees, from taking fish in the river opposite 
their banks; but no seine shall be permitted to be used in said 
river either by such owners or lessees, from twelve o’clock Satur¬ 
day night to twelve o’clock Sunday night; and provided also, 
that every lease or license to fish shall be recorded within ten 
days after the granting thereof in the clerk’s office of the Supe¬ 
rior Court of the County where the land lies. A violation of 
any of the foregoing provisions shall be punished as a misde¬ 
meanor. 
Sec. 601. No person, other than the proprietors of the shores 
and the banks of salt creeks, estuaries, and rivers (or such per¬ 
sons as shall be such proprietor authorized), shall take fish, or 
attempt to do so, with any line, net, or contrivance, on any 
estuary, or river, where an artificial shell reef, beds or fishing 
grounds have been constructed within one hundred yards there¬ 
of. Nor shall one proprietor construct or use such places oppo¬ 
site the shore or bank of another proprietor beyond the center 
of creek, estuary, or river opposite his own shore bank. Any 
person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of 
a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 602. If any person shall put any trap, wire, trot line, 
setline, or other like contrivances, for catching fish for sale, in 
any of the lakes or other waters of the State, upon or within 
the lands of another without the WRITTEN consent of the 
owner thereof, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 603. If any person shall place in the waters of any 
river, or creek, or any fresh water drain any dam, trap, net, 
seine or other device for catching fish, unless the main channel 
of such stream is left open for a space of ten feet for rivers 
and one third or the channel of creek at low water mark, unob¬ 
structed for the free passage of fish up or down such streams, he 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the sheriff of the county, 
upon complaint, of persons in the territory of such obstructions 
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