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LAWS. 
Tracking 
game. 
Dogs running 
at large. 
Angling. 
Proviso. 
Proviso. 
23. It shall be unlawful to hunt, kill or destroy, or 
attempt to hunt, kill or destroy, any partridge, grouse, 
pheasant, quail, woodcock, or hare (commonly known 
as rabbit), while there is snow upon the ground in such 
condition that any such bird or animal may be tracked 
therein, or by tracking any such bird or animal in the 
snow, or to have in possession any such bird or animal 
above mentioned that has been hunted, killed, destroyed 
or taken as aforesaid, under a penalty of twenty dollars 
for each bird or animal above mentioned so hunted, 
killed, destroyed or had in possession, to be recovered 
as are other fines and penalties for the violation of this 
act. 
24. It shall he unlawful for any owner, lessee or 
custodian of any dog to permit such dog to run at large 
in woods or fields inhabited by rabbits or game birds 
except when said dog is in the custody or charge of its 
owner, lessee or custodian, during the close season 
herein provided for hare (commonly known as rabbit), 
under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense. 
25. It shall be unlawful to take or to attempt to take 
any fish from any of the waters of this state by means of 
any contrivance whatsoever excepting in the manner com¬ 
monly known as angling with hand-line or with rod and 
line, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense; 
provided, hoivever, that this provision shall not apply to 
the catching of eels, at any time, by means of wicker 
eel baskets anchored on the bottom of streams and ponds, 
nor to the taking of eels by means of eel weirs from the 
fifteenth day of September to the last day of October, 
both dates inclusive; nor to the taking of suckers, eels, 
cat-fish or carp with a spear in all streams and in all 
lakes and ponds of less than one hundred acres, from 
the twentieth day of February to the twentieth day of 
April, both dates inclusive, of each year; provided, also, 
that it shall be lawful to take minnows and other baitrfish 
with a seine not over fifty feet in length in all ponds and 
lakes which have an area of over one hundred acres, 
and in all other waters with a seine not over thirty feet 
