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The proprietor or occupier of any fishery shall within thirty-six hours after the commencement of the annual close time remove and carry from such fishery, and from the landing places and grounds adjacent thereto, all boats, oars, nets, engines, and other tackle used or employed by such occupier in taking salmon, and effectually secure the same so as to prevent their being used in fishing until the end of the close time, with the exception of such boats and oars as may be used for angling; and the proprietor or occupier of any cruive shall within thirty-six hours after the commencement of the annual close time remove and carry away all the hecks, rails, and inscales, and effectually secure the same so as to prevent their being used in fishing, and shall also remove all planks and temporary fixtures and other obstructions to the free passage of fish through the cruive; and any proprietor or occupier who neglects to remove and carry away and effectually secure in manner aforesaid any boat, oar, net, engine, or other tackle, or any heck, rail, or inscale, or any obstruction to the passage of salmon through a cruive, shall forfeit every engine and thing not removed and carried away in compliance with the terms of this section, and for every day during which he suffers any such engine or thing to remain unremoved beyond the period prescribed in this Act he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any ferry boat, or prevent any proprietor of lands from continuing any boat for the use of himself or of his family, if such boat shall have the name of the proprietor painted thereon, and be secured, when not in use for lawful purposes, by lock and key.
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