June, but said nets shall not be allowed to remain in said waters from Saturday at sunset to the following Monday at sunrise. § 12. Section one hundred and forty, article six, of said act, as amended by chapter sixty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 140. Exceptions as to Saint Lawrence county and Lake Champlain in Essex county and Warren county.-Bullheads, eels, suckers, catfish, and pickerel may be caught with spears, except during March, April and May, and pike in Lake Champlain, in Essex county. It shall be lawful at any time to fish for perch, suckers, bullheads and pickerel with nets and fykes; to shoot and spear such fish through ice and to catch the same in any of the streams, ponds or lakes in Warren county, excepting in Schroon lake and Long pond or Glen lake and Lake George, as to the use of nets, fykes and the catching of bullheads. No fish of any kind, except suckers and billfish or garpikes, shall be caught in Black lake, in Saint Lawrence county, or in the waters tributary to said lake, or in the Oswegatchie river, from the boundaries of the city of Ogdensburg to the vil lage of Heuvelton, between the fifteenth day of November and the first day of May. No transportation company in Saint Lawrence or Jefferson counties shall transport any fish caught contrary to the provisions of this section, and when fish, at any time, are offered such company for transportation, they may, at their option, refuse to accept the same until satisfactory proof is furnished that they were not caught in violation of law. § 13. Section one hundred and forty-one article six of said act as amended by chapter five hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby amended to read as follows: § 141. Pickerel, bullheads, catfish, eels, perch and sunfish may be fished for through the ice with tip-ups, in any of the waters of the state not inhabitated by trout, lake trout, salmon trout or land-locked salmon; except in the Saint Lawrence river and in Great Sodus bay in the county of Wayne; suckers, bullheads, eels and dogfish may be caught at any time by means of hooking and spearing in any of the waters of the state, except in Clyde river and in the Canandaigua outlet in the county of Wayne, Saint Lawrence river in the counties Jefferson and Saint Law rence, and Seneca, Oswego and Oneida rivers and Cayuga, Owasco and Oneida lakes and in Canada lake in Fulton county, except as herein otherwise provided fishing with nets in any of the rivers and lakes is hereby prohibited excepting that suckers may be caught by means of dip-nets in the streams of Monroe county not. inhabitated by trout between the twentieth day of March and the twentieth day of May. §14. Section one hundred and forty-two, article six, of said act, as amended by chapter five hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 142. Eel-weirs.- Eel-weirs of which the laths are not lessthan one-half inch apart may be maintained in the Oneida and Oswego rivers, and from the first day of September to the fifteenth day of October in the Tioughnioga and Otselic rivers; provided that there be a clear passage at low-water mark for boats and fish, of not less than ten feet in width. Eelpots of a form and character such as may be prescribed by the rules of the commissioners of fisheries, may be used in any waters not inhabited by trout, lake trout, salmon trout or landlocked salmon. $ 15. Section one hundred and forty-nine, article six, of said act, as amended by chapter five hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: -- § 149. Frostfish and whitefish may be taken with nets in certain lakes. Frostfish and whitefish may be taken with nets from inland fresh-water lakes at such times and in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the commissioners of fisheries, at a regular meeting of the board, may, in their discretion, prescribe, which rules and regulations may be amended or abrogated by said board at any regular meeting. Such rules may be either general or special, at the option of the board, and may he published in such manner as it deems proper. Any violation of such rules and regulations made by the commissioners of fisheries shall be a misdemeanor, and the violator, in addition thereto, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation. Fish may be taken from the waters of Otsego lake in the county of Otsego, between the first day of May and the first day of September, of each year, with seines having meshes not less than one and three-quarters inches, provided, however, that such fishing with seines shall only be done in the daytime, between sunrise and sunset. 16. Section one hundred and ninety-one, article eight, of said act, as amended by chapter five hundred and seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: $191. Dredging and raking for oysters and clams regulated.No dredge operated by steam power, or weighing over fifty pounds, shall be used on beds of natural growth in dredging for shellfish. No rake, tongs, dredge or other device shall be used for taking hard or round clams with spaces or openings between the teeth or prongs of less than one inch, and no hard or round clams less than one inch in thickness, shall be caught or possessed, but if caught, shall be returned to the water from which they were taken without unnecessary injury, except as provided in section one hundred and seventy-three. 17. Section two hundred and forty-four, article ten, of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: § 244. Jurisdiction of courts.- Courts of special sessions in towns and villages, and the several courts in cities having jurisdiction to try misdemeanors, as provided by section fifty-six of the code of criminal procedure, shall have jurisdiction to try offenders in all cases occurring under this chapter, in the same manner as in other cases where they now have jurisdiction, and to render and enforce judgment to the extent herein provided, and said courts shall have jurisdiction of all said offenses committed within the county where said courts are held, in the same manner a though the defendant had been taken before a magistrate of the town where the offense was committed. 18. Section two hundred and sixty, article eleven, of said aot is hereby amended so as to read as follows: $260. Commissioners to be notified of construction of dam.No dam shall be constructed by the state or any person upon any stream more than six miles in length inhabited by fish protected by this chapter, until the person about to construct, or the officers having charge of the construction of the same shall give written notice to the commissioners of such intention, together with a statement of the name, length and location of said stream, and the size and general description of such dam, and the pur poses for which it is to be erected, together with a diagram thereof. § 19. Section two hundred and sixty-one, article eleven, of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 261. Authority of commissioners to direct fishways.- The commissioners are authorized in such cases to direct the construction of suitable fishways by an entry on their minutes and service of a copy of such order on the person constructing or officers having charge of the construction of such dam, and the person so constructing shall at his own expense, or the officers having charge of the construction shall out of the funds appropriated for the construction of such dam comply with such directions, subject, on application on notice as on a motion, to the right of the supreme court to affirm, reverse, modify or alter such directions. 20. Article three of said act is hereby amended by adding a new section at the end thereof, to be known as section fifty-six, to read as follows: 5. No person, corporation, association or company, shall hunt, kill, pursue with dogs, chase or take alive any wild deer in the county of Sullivan, save only from the first day of October to the first day of November. No person, corporation, association or company shall have in his or its possession or expose for sale after the same has been killed, any wild deer or venison, save only from the first day of October to the fifteenth day of November in each year. Any person, corporation, association or company, offending against any of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each wild deer so killed, hunted, taken alive or pursued. 21. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 628. AN ACT authorizing the clerk of the assembly to cause to be printed and distributed copies of the game law. BECAME a law May 10, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: game law. Section 1. The clerk of the assembly shall cause to be printed Printing of by the legislative printer, to be done under the terms of the contract for the legislative printing and the expense of the same payable from appropriation for legislative printing, thirty-three thousand copies of the game laws to be distributed to the following persons: To each senator and member of Distribuassembly, each game protector and each town clerk of the several copies towns of this state, twenty-five copies; to the chief game protector two thousand copies, and to the commissioners of fisheries, five hundred copies. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. tion of Chap. 629. AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to reduce, confirm and levy certain assessments in the city of Albany, to provide for the payment thereof, and in relation to certain sales thereunder." BECAME a law May 10, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being presant. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section one of chapter six hundred of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follow: Act amended. of certain ments. § 1. The assessment for lands taken by the city of Albany "in Reduction the matter of acquiring title to lands which are deemed neces assess sary for opening, continuing and extending of Myrtle avenue, Park avenue, Warren street, Mercer street, Providence street and Woodlawn avenue, from Quail street to Partridge street, in the city of Albany," which assessment was confirmed by the board of |