Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1871 — The Fish Law. [ARTICLE]

The Fish Law.

fiuu. 1. lie it enacted by the General Assembly 'of the .State of -Indiana, that no person shall take any fish with a tat, seine, gun or trap of any kind, or set net* weir or pot m any of tho lakes, ponds, rivers and small stream# in lids State, except as hureluattar provided. No person shall' take any fish with gig or spear during the months of Man h; April May, November and December. Airy poison violating the provislona'of this section shall lio subject to a lino for each fish so taken of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars: Provided, That the jienalty in tins section shall not he enforced against persons catching small minnows lor bait, with seines not over fifteen feet in length, or the legitimate fishing with hook-, line and pole, or taking fish out of the Ohio river. Hw. 2. No person shall pluee ill any stream, lake or pond, any lime or other deleterious substances, witli the intent to injure fish; nor any drug or medicated haft with intent thereby to (miaou or eatoh fish. Any person violating tiie provisions of tins section, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty dollars, or* more than fifty dollars. h i:c. :t. Prosecutions may be brought by any person in the name of the Mute of Indiana against any one I violating any of the provisions of this I act, before any justice of the peace in | the county in which such violation is 1 alleged to have taken place, or before any court of competent jurisdiction, and any pert-on violating any of the foregoing provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and it is made tire duty of prosecuting attorneys in this .'•date to see that the provisions of this act are enforced in their respective counties. Bi:c. 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Bec. 5. An emergency exists for the immediate passage of this act, therefore, tho same shall take effect and be in force ou and alter its passage. Business and address cards, colored and white, kept in stock aud printed to order at this ofliee. The Gazette wants to know, you know, if they are to have a new depot building at Kent!and tills year. One is very much needed. The people of Goodland, Newton county, are opposing the opening of any more doggeries in their midst. The Kent!and Democrat thinks that it would be as effective to “petition the devil trt close hell and dispose of all his brimstone” as for the temperence people to petition Kent! and saloon keepers to close thrir traffic.