Show amt amr alarm 01 ea 01 jr for aal hee protection oj of fori fowl and anti fisit fish and defining the duties ol of the gouny county conits m in relation thereto see soe L 1 be it enacted by the governor and legislative assembly of the territory of utah that it shall not be lawful to kill or des destroy quails nor any kind of wild fowls or t their progeny that has been or may be imported into this territory for the term of five years from the tho passage of this act sec 2 the free in migration mic mie ra ration on of fish shall not be obstructed by traps veins dams or ok otherwise except as hereinafter permitted see 3 the county court of each county may hold and shall exercise jurisdiction over fisheries in their respective counties under the provisions of this act soc soe 4 no permission shall be iven given ivan to place dams in any streams in a manner that will obstruct the free migration of fish to and from their spawning grounds unless the parties constructing said dams shall provide r 0 vido vide a good and sufficient to ph t the 0 acceptance of the select men of the coun county ty except upon such streams as aro are not generally occupied by lake or brook trout for spawning purposes seo soa 5 the tho size of meshes in all seines used in any county shall be determined by the county court thereof but they may var the tho size to conform to the nature of the ground where it is permitted to be used and all citizens of the territory shall have an equal right to nish fish in any waters of the territory except ate or corporate ponds or sherles fisheries fi sec see 6 all ali persons parsons are prohibited from taking lake or brook trout by seines or traps from the first day of april until the last day of june in each year see sec 7 no person shall pe be permitted to place in any stream lake or pond any line or any other deleterious substances with intent to injure nih nib or any drug or medical bait with the intent thereby to poison or catch fish the putting of dye stuff deleterious products of manufactories manu factories in ponds ors or sti heams earms earns is hereby prohibited seo sem 8 any person who shall cause a useless destruction of fish by leaving them out of water or turning the water out of its channel except for irrigation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and any person violating violat mg this or any of the preceding sections may be fined by any court having jurisdiction not less lass ibis than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each onn off ofie neo eneo sec see 9 shad salmon black bass sll sli ver eels or any other fish that have been or may be imported import edor or their thele progeny shall not be taken from any ady public waters in this territory for the space of five years from the passage of this act under a penalty ot of one dollar for foreich each fish taken tallen sec see 10 any individual or corporate company has a right to establish fisheries and places for the propagation of fish upon their own lands and for this purpose may na ay control ponds or small streams pro vid aided vided od that the waters so used are arbnot not directed from their channels to tho the injury of irrigation and all such persons nave have a right to procure fish nih in any way they please from froin any public waters at any time of the year exclusively for artificial cultivation or propagation and all such fish ponds are declared private property and all properly property invested in fish culture or the introduction and propagation shall be exempt from taxation for the of five years from the passage of this act sec see II 11 any any auy person who shall break any auy dam hoist any gate belonging to any private fish pond or stream or any auy way intorf interfere ero aro with the same or take auy fish without the consent of the owner shall bo be deemed guilty of a trespass and shall be liable for all damage done and may be fined in any sum not to exceed one hundred dollars for each of obb nonce monco enco sec 12 any person who shall shail import oysters and plant the same in any waters in this territory for the purpose of propagation shall be ba protected therein and it shall not be lawful for any peri persons ons to take any oysters from any bed planted ju in this territory without the consent of the owner or in any way injure or interfere with any such oyster bed any person so offend offending lu shall bo be liable to all dattage damage and may be filien fined by any court bourt haying having jurisdiction in any sum not less thau fifty nor more than one hundred dollars sec sect 13 all ali fines which may be collected according to the provisions of this act shall be ba paid into the county treasury for tho the benefit of common schools sec sea 14 an act to regulate fisheries and to prohibit fish traps and other contrivances contri contil vances for catching fish in the river jordan approved january the seventeenth eighteen hundred and sixty two is hereby repealed approved feb 1872 united states of america territory of utah J 1 I george A black secretary of the territory of utan utah do hereby certia ly that tho the foregoing is a true and correct copy of tho tile original law liw now on file in ray ofilio A BLACK I 1 i s secretary of Uta utah her hor ter tor hii 1 I 1 after ten ton tenderly dorly caring for a poor little foundling difed vered bored in the newark depot for three or fouer focer hours it proved to bo be a large doll |