1158 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

seven inches in length, or any yellow perch of, any size less
than eight inches in length, or any pike less than fourteen
inches in length, or any rock, otherwise known as striped bass,
or any taylor of any size less than ten inches in length,
measuring, in the case of each fish, from the tip of the nose
to the end of the caudal fin or tail.

1902, ch. 358, sec. 78 D.

80. No person shall, in this State, in any manner or at any
time, so obstruct any stream above where the tide ebbs and
flows in which trout or other fish have been placed by the State
or natural government, so that said fish shall not have free
access up and down said stream, under a penalty of not less
than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty-five dollars (825)
for every such offense.

Ibid. sec. 78 E.

81. Every owner of a dam or dams upon any of the said
waters of this State is hereby required to make and keep in
repair, or to cause to be made and kept in repair, and placed
upon said dam or dams at least one fish ladder of such a
character as to enable fish to have a free course up and down
said waters at all times, under a penalty of not less than
twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars
($100) for each and every offense.

Ibid. sec. 78 F.

82. No person shall place, throw or make use of, in any of
said waters, except for bona fide engineering, milling or
mining purposes, any dynamite or other explosive substance,
or any lime, poison, acid, saw dust, shavings or any other
substance whatsoever deleterious to or destructive of fish life,
under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100)
nor more than three hundred dollars ($300), or imprisonment
in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than
three years, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion
of the court; provided, however, that nothing in this section
shall apply to saw mills now in operation until October 1, 1903,
unless said saw mill or mills shall in the meantime change its
or their location; and further provided, that any saw mill or
mills moving from its or their present location, shall be con-
sidered a new mill or mills, and shall be subject to the pro-
visions of this section.