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[ No. 277. ]

AN ACT to define the limits of Wild Fowl bay, and to prohibit fishing with nets within such limits.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Fishing fishing with nets in Wild Fowl bay is prohibited.

with nets prohibited.

Wild Fowl

SEC. 2. Wild Fowl bay embraces the waters within the Boundaries of following lines: Beginning at the west end of Point Charities, Bay. at the west portion of section eleven, in township seventeen north of range nine east, run thence southwesterly west of North island, Heisterman island, and Maisou island, so-called, to a point in the bay west of the south line of section twentyone in township sixteen north of range nine east, thence by a right angle east to the shore; thence northerly and westerly along the shore to Point Charities, taken as the place of beginning.

SEC. 3. The taking of minnows and other small fish, bait, with nets, shall not be considered a violation of act.

for Small fish for this taken.

bait may be

SEC. 4. Any person violating the provisions of this act Penalty. shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offence, and shall also be liable to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding twenty days, in the discretion of the court.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 26, 1897.

[No. 278. ]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number three hundred and eighty-nine, session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of fish in Reed's lake and Fisk's lake, in the township of Grand Rapids in the county of Kent."

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section two, of act number three hundred and eighty-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of fish in Reed's lake and Fisk's lake, in the township of Grand Rapids in the county of Kent," be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful to fish in Reed's lake or Fisk's lake, or either of them in any manner, or to take and remove

When unlaw-
Reed's or

ful to fish in

Fisk's lake.

any fish therefrom in any manner, at any time during the
months of October, November, December, January, February,
March and April in any year.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 31, 1897.

Certain fish may be taken

dip net.

[ No. 279. ]

AN ACT to regulate the spearing and taking of fish by net in
Clinton river and its tributaries, in the county of Macomb.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That with spear or hereafter it shall be lawful to take, catch or kill suckers, mullet, redsides and grass pike (commonly called pickerel), by the use of spear or dip net, in the Clinton river and its tributaries Proviso as to in the county of Macomb: Provided, That no dip net shall be used which is more than twelve feet square.

size of net.

Penalty.

Repealing clause.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and costs of suit or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twenty days or both in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in any wise contravening any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 1, 1897.

Unlawful to fish in Camp lake.

Penalty.

[ No. 280. ]

AN ACT to regulate the catching of fish in the lake known as
Camp Lake in the township of Algoma in Kent county.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it shall not be lawful to catch, kill or destroy with seines, or with any continuous nets, or with any form of spears, or with any description of firearms, in the inland lake known as Camp lake in Algoma township in Kent county.

SEC. 2. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction, be liable to a fine of not over one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail of Kent county not exceeding sixty days.

Approved April 16, 1897.

[No. 281. ]

AN ACT to amend section three of act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act for the protection of fish in the Saginaw river and its tributaries, and to repeal act number thirty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three."

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section three of act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled, "An act for the protection of fish in the Saginaw river and its tributaries, and to repeal act number thirty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three," be amended so as to read as follows:

use nets in

SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons Unlawful to to set, use or place any pound, trap, stake, gill or set nets or Saginaw seines, or any device of any kind for taking fish in the waters river during of the Saginaw river from the fifteenth day of April to the first months. day of November in each year.

Approved April 22, 1897.

certain

[ No. 282.]

AN ACT to provide for the protection of rabbits in Wayne

county.

be used.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Ferret not to it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons to use a ferret for the purpose of hunting or killing rabbits in the county of Wayne in this State.

SEC. 2. A violation of this act shall be punished by a fine of Penalty. five dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment, until such fine is paid, not exceeding ten days.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 7, 1897.

[No. 283.]

AN ACT to regulate the hunting of wild ducks and other wild water fowl in the public waters of Lake Erie within this State, and providing a penalty for violations of the provisions of this act.

interference

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Penalty for it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wilfully scare with legal or drive wild ducks or other wild water fowl, or cause the same hunters, etc.

Disposition of fines.

to be done, from any person lawfully hunting the same on the public waters of that part of Lake Erie within the State of Michigan, for the purpose of depriving or attempting to deprive such person of any or all of his opportunities of shooting or hunting such wild ducks or other wild water fowl, and every person so offending, upon conviction, shall pay a penalty of twenty dollars and costs of suit, which penalty shall be recov ered by action brought by the prosecuting attorney of the county where the penalty is incurred, in the name of the people of the State of Michigan: Provided, Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to detract from the public right of passage over such waters in the ordinary course of navigation.

SEC. 2. All sums recovered by virtue of this act shall be turned into the county treasury. Approved May 7, 1897.

Section amended.

Unlawful to

use certain

nels of Les Cheneaux islands.

[ No. 284. ]

AN ACT to amend section one of an act, entitled “An act to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, gill nets, or any form of pound or trap nets in the channels known as Les Cheneaux Channels, or in the entrances thereto, except that portion lying east of the east line of section thirty-four, town forty-two north of range one east," being act number seventy of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, section one, and section two thousand one hundred and ninetyfour o of Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, volume three supplement.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of an act, entitled "An act to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, gill hets, or any form of pound or trap nets in the channels known as Les Cheneaux Channels, or in the entrances thereto, except that portion lying east of the east line of section thirty-four, town forty-two north of range one east," being act number seventy of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, section one, and section two thousand one hundred and ninety-four o of Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, volume three, supplement, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful hereafter to fish with nets in chan- seines, gill nets, or any form of pound or trap nets, in the channels known as the Les Cheneaux Channels, in Mackinaw county, or in the entrances thereto, except that portion lying east of the east line of section thirty-four, of town forty-two north, range one east, said line running north and south:

nets to catch

Provided, That it shall be lawful to use, in said waters, nets Proviso as to or seines of not less than one-fourth inch mesh, and of dimen- bait. sions not greater than thirty feet in length and five feet in width, to catch chub and shiners for minnow bait, for use with rod and line, or hand line only, by the person catching the same, or for his use, and not to be used for sale, nor kept in any box, trap or pail, in other than fresh water, until used: Provided further, That it shall not be unlawful to catch chubs or shiners for bait in any waters of the State that have not been stocked with trout by the State Fish Commission. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 7, 1897.

[ No. 285.]

AN ACT to provide for the lawful taking of German carp from the waters of Black River lake, also known as Macatawa bay, in Ottawa county, and from the streams tributary thereto.

take German carp in cer

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Lawful to it shall be lawful at all times to take German carp from the waters of Black River lake, also known as Macatawa bay, in tain waters. the county of Ottawa and from the streams tributary thereto, by means of nets, or in any other manner not destructive to other kinds of fish: Provided, That the taking of said German Proviso as to carp from said waters shall be done only by permission and permission of under the supervision of the local game warden, whose duty it shall be to allow the taking of said German carp from said waters in such manner as not to destroy other kinds of food fish protected under the laws of this State from being taken with nets or in other ways prohibited by law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 13, 1897.

game warden.

[ No. 286. ]

AN ACT to permit the spearing of white fish and herring in Portage and Little Portage lakes in the counties of Livingston and Washtenaw, in the State of Michigan, at certain seasons of the year.

spear white

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Lawful to it shall be lawful for any person or persons to spear whitefish fish and her. and herring, commonly called and known in the inland lakes ring in cer

tain lakes.

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