effected? What disposition is made of the moneys arising from the sale? What powers have township and village boards with reference to theatrical exhibitions and shows? What is the penalty for setting up or promoting such shows or exhibitions without a license, or contrary to the terms of such license? What regulations may the inhabitants of townships and villages make concerning the keeping of gunpowder? What can you say in reference to the dog-license law? What is the penalty for importing diseased sheep? For allowing such sheep to run at large in the highways?

CHAPTER LVIII.

LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FISH.

It is unlawful to put into any of the waters of the State, where fish are taken, any offal, blood, putrid brine, putrid fish, or filth of any description. The penalty for a violation of this law, is a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

All fish, offal, or filth accruing from the catching and curing of fish, must be burned or buried ten rods distant from the beach or shore of the river or lake.

The spawn taken from all whitefish caught shall be forthwith deposited in the waters near the spawning places from which the fish were taken.

For a violation of the provisions of law mentioned in either of the last two paragraphs, the offender is subject to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars and costs, or to imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties have the power to make rules and regulations for fishing with nets and all manner of fishing tackle, in those counties where the law does not, by express terms or by reasonable implication, deprive them of this power.

The Boards, except in those counties referred to in the preceding paragraphs, and to which reference will be made hereafter, are authorized and required to grant, on the application of any transient or non-resident person or persons, a written permission or license for one year, for each and every pound or trap net used, on payment of fifty dollars.

A law was passed in 1867, to prevent fishing with seines and every kind of continuous nets, in the waters of the counties of Branch, Livingston, Cass, St. Joseph, Kent, Ionia, Genesee, and Calhoun, or in any of the lakes, rivers, or streams of Macomb county, under a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the County Jail not more than sixty days, to be determined by the Court. A similar act was passed in 1865 with reference to fishing in the counties of Jackson, Hillsdale, Washtenaw, Van Buren, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Barry, Eaton, and the townships of Rollin, Medina, Seneca, Dover, Hudson, Cambridge, Franklin, and Woodstock, in Lenawee county. At the same session of the Legislature, an act similar to the foregoing was passed, applying to all the inland lakes or small streams of all the territory of the State, according to the United States survey, north of the township line numbered twenty, north.

The law makes it the duty of the owners or occupants of mill-dams to construct proper shutes, to admit the passage of fish during the months of April, May, and June. A failure to do this subjects the person in default to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding ninety days.

It is unlawful for any person to place a weir dum, fish weir, or weir net, across any race, drain, stream, or inland river of this State, so as to obstruct the free passage of fish up and down the same; and the offender is subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, for each offense, and also to the payment of two dollars additional penalty for every day he shall continue to keep up such fish weir or weir net, after having been notified by any elector of the township wherein such fish weir or weir net may be, feeling himself aggrieved thereby, to remove the same.

By the provisions of an act passed in 1873, it is unlawful to kill at any time, by means of nets, traps, or seines, in any inland lake, river, or stream, or by any other means between the first day of October and the first day of April next succeeding, any speckled trout or grayling. The penalty for a violation of this provision is a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court. At the same session an act was passed, providing "that it shall not be lawful hereafter, at any time, to fish with seines, trap-nets, pound-nets, dip-nets, or any species of continuous nets, or during the months of March, April, May and June by spearing or shooting, in any of the waters of the State of Michigan, except Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, St. Clair, the St. Clair and Detroit rivers, and Lake Erie: Provided, Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting sole owners of fish ponds from fishing therein, as they may think proper."

In 1873, the Legislature passed an act to establish a Board of Commissioners to increase the product of the fisheries. This Board is required to locate a State fish-breeding establishment, for the artificial propagation and cultivation of whitefish, and such other kinds of the better class of food fishes as

they may direct. The duties of this Board have been referred to in a preceding chapter.

Questions-What materials shall not be put into the waters of this State, where fish are taken? What is the penalty for violating this provision? What must be done with offal, etc, which accrues from the catching and curing of fish? What must be done with the spawn, in certain cases? What is the penalty for refusing or neglecting to dispose of the offal, etc., and of the spawn, as directed? What powers have Boards of Supervisors in relation to fishing? What is said of the law of 1867? Of the acts of 1865? What is said of the construction of shutes? Of weir dams and weir nets? Of the several acts of 1873? What is said of the act of 1873, with reference to a Board of Fish Commissioners?

CHAPTER LIX.

OF THE PROTECTION OF GAME, SONG BIRDS, AND MUSK-RATS, It is provided by law that no person or persons shall pursue, or hunt, or kill any wild elk, wild buck, doe, or fawn, save only during the months of October, November, and December in each year; or kill or destroy by any means whatever, or attempt to take or destroy any wild turkey at any time during the year, except in the months of September, October, November, and December in each year; or kill or destroy, by any means whatever, any woodcock until after the fifth of July; or any prairie chicken, or pinnated grouse, ruffled grouse, commonly called partridge or pheasant, or any wood duck, teal duck, or mallard duck, save only from the first day of September in each year to the first day of January next following

It is also provided that no person or persons shall kill or'

destroy, or attempt to kill or destroy, any quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, except during the months of October, November, and December in each year.

The law also provides that no person shall kill, or attempt to kill, any wild duck, or other wild fowl, with or by means of a swivel or punt gun, or rob or destroy the nests of any wild duck or wild geese, or in any manner kill or molest the same while they are sitting at night on their nesting places.

No person shall sell, or expose for sale, any of the birds. or animals protected by this act, after the expiration of thirty days next succeeding the times limited and prescribed for the killing of any such birds or animals: Provided however, That it shall be lawful to expose for sale, and to sell, any live quail for the purpose of preserving the same alive through the winter.

Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions, is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and is liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, and on conviction thereof, is to be committed to the common jail until such penalty is paid; provided, that the imprisonment shall not exceed thirty days.

All persons within this State are prohibited from killing any robin, night-hawk, whippoorwill, finch, thrush, lark, sparrow, cherry-bird, swallow, yellow-bird, blue-bird, brown-thrasher, wren, mattin, oriole, wood-pecker, bobolink, or any song bird, and from robbing the nests of such birds, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed, and for each nest robbed. Any person or company having any of the above named birds or animals in their possession for transportation, or who shall transport the same, after the expiration of thirty days next succeeding the times limited and prescribed for the killing of such birds or animals, is liable to be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars.