force of men on each boat properly to save, handle, impreg nate and deliver such spawn at any port or fishing ground when it has been determined that fish are ripe for spawning, Determinaand when such determination has been made by the State tically opens Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, the fishing season automatically opens at such port or fishing ground.

tion automa

season.

spawn to

SEC. 10. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commis- Delivery of sioner shall deliver to designated representatives of the hatcheries. United States bureau of fisheries and representatives of the Michigan Fish Commission so much of said spawn as may be desired by said bureau or commission to supply its hatcheries for propagation and planting in the waters of said lakes within the jurisdiction of this State; and the remainder of Remainder. the spawn shall be planted upon the spawning beds from which it was taken. The persons, firms, co-partnerships, associations or corporations so fishing shall plant on the spawning beds, when directed so to do by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, such proportion of the spawn as may have been taken from fish caught by said persons, firms, co-partnerships, associations or corporations. Any person, refuse. firm, co-partnership, association or corporation refusing or failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 11. It shall be lawful for the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner and the State Board of Fish Commissioners to take fish in any manner, in any of the waters mentioned in this act, at any and all seasons of the year, for the purpose of fish culture and scientific investigation; to have and to hold ripe and unripe fish in order to take spawn therefrom; to sell all such ripe and unripe fish; and to devote the proceeds of such sales exclusively toward defraying the expenses incurred in taking such fish and fertilizing and planting the spawn therefrom.

Planting by

fishermen.

Violation to

Taking in any

manner for

fish culture,

etc.

How ship

ping package, etc., for fish

to be marked.

When carrier

SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation to ship or transport within this State any fish in packages or fish cars without plainly and correctly marking each package or fish car with the name of the consignor and the consignee, and the kinds of fish and the number of pounds of each kind contained therein. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, boat line, not to accept. express company, or other transportation company or common carrier, or any agent of any such company, to accept for shipment or transport any package or fish car containing fish unless it is properly marked as prescribed in this section. The presence in any package or fish car of ten per centum of Seizure of any fish that it is illegal to ship shall make the entire contents of said package or fish car subject to seizure as an illegal shipment.

illegal shipments.

When possession deemed

SEC. 13. The possession of any package of illegal fish offered to any common carrier as mentioned in section twelve, to remain in shall be construed to be and remain in the consignor until

consignor.

in common carrier.

Proviso, when delivered to the consignee: Provided, That if any common carrier as herein before mentioned is not able, or refuses or neglects to show from whom the consignment of any shipment of fish was received, the shipment is hereby declared to be in possession of the common carrier having same in transit and they may be proceeded against the same as the original owner. SEC. 14. Any package or car of fish in transit opened by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner or his deputies, if found to be a lawful shipment under this act, shall be repacked in as good condition as possible: Provided, That no package or car of fish legally shipped shall be detained in transit by or for inspection.

Repacking of opened packages.

Proviso.

Lawful weight of whitefish.

Lake trout.

Dressed fish defined.

gills removed.

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful to market or have in possession at any time in this State, whether caught within or without this State, any whitefish of less weight than two pounds in the round or one pound and ten ounces when dressed, and one pound and six ounces when dressed, head off and salted; any lake trout of a less weight than one and one-half pounds in the round or one and one-fourth pounds when dressed and ciscowets trout two pounds in the round. Dressed fish within the meaning of this act shall be fish with gills and all entrails removed. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to Trout to have market or offer for sale within this State, any dressed trout that the gills have not been removed therefrom. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the marketing or selling of Marketing in whitefish or trout of a legal weight in the round; any perch of a less length than nine inches; any mullet of a less weight than one pound; any grass pike of a less weight than one pound; any catfish of a less weight than two pounds; any bullheads of a less weight than eight ounces in the round; any wall-eyed pike or yellow pickerel of a less weight than one pound; any rock bass of a less weight than five ounces; any sunfish of a less weight than four ounces; any blue gills of a less weight than four ounces: Provided, That it shall be lawful to transport and sell any of the above kinds of fish of a legal weight and legally caught during any season of the year.

round.

Proviso.

Immature fish in pound nets or seines.

Proviso, certain fish

taken in cer

SEC. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons engaged in lifting pound nets or seines in the waters of this State, to take from the said waters any immature fish, and all immature fish found in the nets fished in said waters shall be returned to said waters with as little injury as possible by the person or persons lifting the net or nets: Provided further, That it shall not be unlawful for fishermen to have tain gill nets. in possession, not to exceed in quantity the percentage allowed in section six of this act, lake trout, wall-eyed pike, perch or suckers, of a less weight than established by this section which are caught in two and three-fourths inch mesh gill Under direc- nets, and the same may be shipped and disposed of only under the direction of the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner. For the purpose of this act immature fish shall

tion of commissioner.

and line fishing.

not to be netted.

be construed to mean fish of a less weight than established by this act: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Proviso, hook section shall not apply to fish taken from the waters herein mentioned with hook and line by persons for their own use and not for sale, but in such case the same regulations shall be observed as now apply to inland lakes and waters. SEC. 17. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or Certain fish catch with any kind of a net in any of the waters mentioned in this act, black bass of any kind, any brook trout, rainbow trout, American brown trout, Lock Leven trout, steelhead trout, or any other species of brook trout, or to sell or offer for sale or to have in possession at any time any of the said fish taken with nets. Any such fish found in any net shall at Return to once be returned to the waters from which taken with as little harm as possible to said fish, by the person or persons

lifting the net or nets.

water.

SEC. 18. It shall be unlawful to take or catch in any Sturgeon. manner any sturgeon in any of the waters mentioned in this act, weighing less than twenty pounds in the round or to sell or offer for sale, or have in possession at any time, any sturgeon taken from said waters, weighing less than twenty pounds in the round, or fourteen pounds dressed with head, fins and entrails removed.

SEC. 19. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation to set or use nets, set lines with baited hooks, or any other continuous device in any of the waters mentioned in this act without marking the location of and identifying said nets, or other devices by attaching to the buoy, flags at least four feet above the surface of the water and showing the boat, set line or net license number in plain figures upon the bowls or flags of said buoys of the person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation using the nets, set lines or other devices; the license number to be attached to the stakes at the heart or pot of pound nets; to the funnel rack or heart stake of trap nets, where the heart and pot are set below the surface of the water; to a buoy at the point of heart or pot of fyke nets where the cover of the hearts or pots comes to the surface of the water.

Marking of

nets, set

lines, etc.

before

SEC. 20. Every person, firm, co-partnership, association Inspection or corporation taking fish for market in any of the waters shipment. mentioned in this act shall bring them to some port or place in Michigan where they may be inspected before shipping them to any market outside the boundaries of this State.

price for fish

SEC. 21. Every person, firm, co-partnership, association Maximum or corporation taking in whitefish or trout or both, for the fixed. market in any of the waters mentioned in this act shall sell to the citizens of this State at his or their home port or fishhouse, packing house or other place where fish are landed for inspection, packing or shipping, either to points outside or within the State, fish for use only, at a price not to exceed

Reservation

by State to

the wholesale shipping price then prevailing in Michigan, plus two cents per pound.

SEC. 22. The State of Michigan through the State Game, take over fish. Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, reserves to itself the right to take over sufficient of any and all the fish in condition for fish culture taken by any person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation fishing in Michigan waters only for fish culture and when so taken they shall be weighed, and made to pay for same either at nets or crating station, plus cost of transportation, if any, the same to be determined by the Public Domain Commission, based on Chicago, New York and Detroit markets, or at such other prices as may be agreed upon by person or persons taking fish and the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner.

Price.

Accounts to be kept by fishermen.

Annual report.

Penalty.

Second offense.

When fine and costs imposed.

Repealing clause.

Proviso,

acts saved.

SEC. 23. Every person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation taking fish for the market in any of the waters mentioned in this act shall keep an accurate account of the number of pounds of each kind of fish taken and the number of quarts of spawn taken and the number of pounds of caviar taken by them, together with the disposition of such spawn and caviar and shall on or before February first of each year report to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner the total number of pounds of each of the kinds of fish caught during the year ending December thirty-first preceding the filing of the report, and the number of quarts of spawn taken and its disposition and the number of pounds of caviar taken. SEC. 24. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, for the first offense be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and for the second or any subsequent offense, charged as such in the complaint, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and cost of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. When a fine with costs is imposed under the provisions of this act, the court shall sentence the offender to be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, but for a period not exceeding the maximum penalty for the offense.

SEC. 25. Act number one hundred eighty-eight of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-five, act number three hundred ninety-nine of the Local Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, act number three hundred forty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be held to repeal any part of the following acts which prohibit or regulate the setting of nets in bays: Act number seventy of the Public Acts

of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number thirty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, act number one hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, act number three hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, act number three hundred twentyfour of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, act number one hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, and act number one hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, act number eleven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, act number one hundred twenty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five. Approved May 2, 1919.

[No. 160.]

AN ACT to release legally married minors from parental control and to determine their marital rights and duties.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

entitled to.

SECTION 1. Hereafter the legal marriage of a minor shall Rights, etc., release such minor from parental control; and the husband or wife of a minor, so released, shall be entitled to the same rights, benefits and privileges, and such minor shall be subject to the same duties, liabilities and responsibilities, as such husband or wife, as if such minor husband or wife were of legal age at the time of such marriage. Approved May 2, 1919.

[No. 161.]

AN ACT to amend sections two and four of act number one hundred eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to license and regulate the hunting, pursuing and killing of wild animals and wild birds protected by the laws of this State, except deer and beaver," being sections seven thousand five hundred twenty-seven and seven thousand five hundred twenty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number two hundred sixty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two and four of act number one hun- Sections dred eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen,

amended.