To the Governor, the sum of $12,000, together with the use and occupancy of the executive mansion.

To the Lieutenant Governor, the sum of $2,500: Provided, that if the powers and duties of the office of Governor shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall during the continuance of such emergency, be entitled to the emoluments thereof as herein provided.

To the Secretary of State, the sum of $7,500.

To the Auditor of Public Accounts, the sum of $7,500.

To the Treasurer, the sum of $10,000.

To the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the sum of $7,500. To the Attorney General, the sum of $10,000.

AN ACT to regulate the catching of whitefish, trout, herring, chubs, longjaws, blackfins, perch and other rough fish in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: No person or corporation shall fish for, take or catch, by any means whatever, any fish of any description in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, from and including the 15th day of November to and including the 15th day of December in each year, and during said period no person or corporation shall set or allow to remain in said waters nets or hooks of any description: Provided, however, that when, on the 14th day of November in any year, any person or corporation shall have nets set in said waters, which owing to stress of weather such person or corporation shall be unable to raise and bring in on said day, three days of grace thereafter shall be allowed for the purpose of raising and bringing in such nets and the fish caught therein.

§ 2. No person or corporation shall set for the catching of whitefish or trout in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, at any time, any net smaller than a 44inch mesh gill net.

3. Every owner, manager, sailor or other person, using and operating a steam, gasoline or sail boat for fishing on any spawning ground in the waters of Lake Michigan, within the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, where whitefish and trout spawn, shall place upon and have upon such boat at all times from the 15th day of October to the 15th day of November in each and every year, one man whose duty it shall be to gather and impregnate the spawn of said fish, which spawn, when so gathered, shall either be promptly turned over to the State fish hatcheries or returned to the waters of said lake in a proper manner.

§ 4. No owner, manager, sailor or other person using and operating a steam, gasoline or sailboat for fishing in the waters of other lakes, shall be permitted to use such boat for fishing on spawning grounds in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, unless he shall have been fishing in such waters for a period of not less than three months prior to the first day of December in the year in which such fishing is attempted.

And it shall be unlawful for any person violating the foregoing provision of this section from fishing at all during the spawning season in the waters of Lake Michigan within the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois.

§ 5. After April 1, 1908, it shall be unlawful to set any net of a mesh between 23/4 inches and 44 inches in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, for any purpose whatever at any time. And no person shall fish for, take or catch, by any means whatever, any herring, chubs, longjaws or black fins, in the waters of Lake Michigan, under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, at any time, other than with a 234-inch mesh gill net.

That it shall be lawful for any person or corporation to take and place upon the market any and all dead trout found in a 234-inch mesh gill net set in proper waters, during the open season, for herring, chubs, longjaws or black fins, but no whitefish of less than 11⁄2 pounds.

§ 6. It shall be lawful for any person or corporation to fish for, take and catch during the open season, perch and other rough fish, with a 21⁄2-inch mesh gill net, set within three miles from the shore line in the waters of Lake Michigan under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois.

§ 7. A pound net may be used wherever a gill net is provided for, if the crib or pot be 4 inch extension measure as manufactured, and the crib or pot of a 21⁄2-inch mesh net may be used for the purpose of catching herring, bluebacks or any other rough fish where it will not interfere with immature whitefish or trout, after April 1, 1908.

§ 8. No person shall be permitted to use or operate a steam, gasoline or sailboat for fishing in or upon the waters mentioned in

the first section of this Act without first obtaining a license so to do from the city clerk or county clerk of any city or county bordering upon such waters, which clerks are hereby authorized to issue such licenses. The fee for such licenses to be paid to such clerk in advance shall be as follows: For each steam tug, $25.00; for each gasoline launch, $15.00; for each sailboat, $10.00; and each city or county clerk issuing any license shall be entitled to a fee of ten cents for each license so issued by him, in addition to the fee above provided for, to be paid by the party applying for such license. Which payment so made shall entitle the person making the same to use and operate such steam tug, gasoline launch or sailboat, at such time as prescribed by this Act. The license fee above provided for shall be paid by the said clerk to the State Treasurer at the end of each month, and shall be placed to the credit of a fund to be known as the State fish protection fund, and shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer on warrants signed by the State fish commissioners, approved by the Governor and filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall draw his warrants therefor on the State Treasurer. And said license shall expire on the first day of June following its issuance.

Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as limiting or restraining the right of any person to fish at any time with a hook and line without any license.

$ 9. Any person or corporation violating any of the Act other than section one shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and costs of suit, or imprisonment in the county jail of the county wherein such conviction shall be had for not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Any person or corporation violating the provisions of section one of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars and costs of suit, or imprisonment in the county jail of the county wherein such conviction shall be had for not less than three months nor more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

§ 10. All Acts or parts of Acts contravening the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED May 17, 1907.

(HOUSE BILL No. 834. FILED JUNE 5, 1907.)

AN ACT entitled, "An Act to encourage the propagation and cultivation and to secure the protection of fishes in all the waters under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, defining the duties of the fish commissioners, fixing their compensation and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person or persons shall place or cause to be placed or erected, any seine, wire, net, fish dam or other obstruction in or across any of the rivers, creeks, ponds, streams, lakes, sloughs, bayous, or other water or water or water courses within the jurisdiction of this State, in such manner as will obstruct the free passage of fish up and down and through such water or water courses, and it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or take fish, except minnows for bait, with any device or means other than a hook and a line, within one-half mile of any dam constructed across any of the rivers or creeks or other water courses within the jurisdiction of this State.

That it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or kill any fish in or upon any of the lakes or rivers within the jurisdiction of this State except waters used for commercial navigation, or lakes, sloughs or bayous adjoining the same, with any device or means when such waters are covered with ice. It shall, however, be lawful to take with net and seine only from all streams navigable for commercial purposes, and from the sloughs and bayous directly connected with such streams, dog fish, carp, buffalo and cat fish, when such streams, lakes and bayous so connected with said streams are covered with ice. That it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or kill or attempt to catch or kill any fish with any trammel net, drag hooks,

basket or other similar device in or upon any of the rivers, creeks, streams, ponds, lakes, sloughs, bayous or other water courses, within the jurisdiction of this State: Provided, dog fish, carp, buffalo and cat fish may be caught with trammel nets in the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Big Wabash and Calumet rivers proper, at any time except from April the 15th to June the 1st, of each and every year. Nor shall the meshes of any weir, seine, or any net or seine, except seine used for catching minnows for bait, be less than one and one-half inches square: Provided, however, that seining shall be lawful and allowed between the 1st day of September each year and the 15th day of April in the following year, with seines, the meshes of which shall not be less than one and one-half (12) inches square in the following rivers, to-wit: The Mississippi, Big Wabash, Illinois and Calumet rivers, and the lakes, sloughs and bayous connected with said rivers within the jurisdiction of this State: Provided, also, that it shall be lawful for the fish commissioners of Illinois or the United States, or persons authorized by them, to take fish in any way, at any time, and in any such places as they deem best for the purpose of propagation, distribution or destroying of objectionable fish. It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell or have in possession any fish at any time which shall have been caught, taken or killed contrary to the provisions of this Act, and any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined as provided in this Act: Provided, further, however, that every person who shall at any time catch or kill or take or attempt to catch or kill any fish in any of the rivers, creeks, lakes, streams, sloughs, bayous, or other water courses within the jurisdiction of this State, by the use of lime. acid, medical or chemical compounds or dope of any medicated drug, or any cocolus indicus or fish berry or any dynamite or giant powder, nitro glycerine or any explosive substance of which nitro glycerine composes a part, or other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, either or both, at the discretion of the court.

And, provided, also, that when gar are taken by seine or net, they shall be destroyed and any person neglecting to destroy such gar, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined as provided in this Act: And, provided, also, every person who shall at any time kill or attempt to kill, with spear, in any of the rivers, creeks, ponds, lakes, streams, sloughs, bayous or other water courses within the jurisdiction of this State, any fish except german carp, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined as provided in this Act.

§ 2. That it shall be the duty of any person or persons who now own or control, or hereafter may erect or control any dam or other obstruction across any of the rivers, creeks, streams, bayous or other water courses wholly within or running through this State in such manner as shall obstruct the free passage of fish up and down or through such water or water courses, to place or cause to be erected in or in connection with such dam or dams, durable and efficient