ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 923

76. Any person or company engaged in the increase of
Brook Trout by artificial process (known as fish culture) may
take from his or their pond or ponds in any way, and cause to
be transported and may sell any Brook Trout and the spawn
of Brook Trout at any time; and common carriers may trans-
port them, and dealers, may sell them on condition that the
packages thereof so transported are accompanied by a certifi-
cate from a Justice of the Peace, certifying that such trout
are sent by the owners or agents or parties so engaged in fish
culture; and such person or company may take, in any way and
at any time, upon the premises of any person, under permis-
sion of the owners thereof, brook trout to be kept and used for
artificial propagation only, and for no other purpose. Permits
for propagation of trout in a pond or ponds privately owned
may be issued by the State Game and Fish Warden, free of
cost, however, person propagating any of the game or fresh
water fishes named in this Act must apply for a permit to
transport or sell, barter or exchange any fish or fishes which
may be so offered.

78. No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill
in any waters of this State above a point where the tide ebbs
and flows, any of the game or fresh water fishes herein named,
and no person or persons shall catch, take or kill or have in
possession any brown trout, brook trout or rainbow trout or
any other species of the salmon and trout family (except Sque-
teague) of any size less than six inches nor any large or small
mouth bass less than nine inches or any pike or pickerel less
than fourteen inches, measuring in ease of each fish from the
tip of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail, in any man-
ner whatsoever, nor at any time save only with rod, line and
hook or hooks haired with natural bait, or tied with artificial
fly or with a spoon or spinner, each equipped with a hook, or
hooks.

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,
so that fish shall not have free access up and down said stream.

81. Every owner of a dam or dams upon any of the waters
of this State is hereby required to make and keep in repair, or
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 clown said waters at all times.