Chap. 25.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an
act approved February 11, 1874, and amended by an act approved
April 29, 1874, in relation to obstructing Water Courses, &c.

Approved January 8, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of an act approved February eleventh, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, entitled an act to prevent the obstruc-
tion with timber or rendering foul the water courses of this
state, which was amended ‘by act approved April twenty-
ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2. Any person who sball knowingly or wilfully cast any
dead animals, or any other noxious substances or matter, or
what is commonly known as bait, into any of the water
courses of the state, above tide-water, by which the fish of
the same shall be destroyed, or the health of the citizens
along said water courses be imperilled, or by which the water
is rendered impure or offensive, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.