or any oysters from any private oyster bed, without the consent of the owner, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding four dollars for each fish or oyster so taken. Persons con provide fish SEC. 9. Every person who shall construct or continue to keep any dam across any of the structing streams of the waters of this Territory in which dammst fish migrate, in such a manner as to hinder or ways, when. obstruct the migration of fish to or from their spawning grounds, without providing a fishway and keeping it in repair as provided in the following Penalty. section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 10. The fishway for the passage of fish in large streams of water, in the dam mentioned Fishway, how in the preceding section,'must be made of plank, constructed. or other material equivalent thereto, in the form of a box, open at each end, not less than four feet wide, three feet high, and it must be fastened at the top of the dam, and the other end must extend to, and be fastened in the pool below the dam at an angle not exceeding thirty-five degrees. • Inside this box, fastened at the bottom and at one end, to the side of the box, there must be peices of plank, four feet apart, placed transversely so as to cause a riffle not less than ten inches high. These pieces of plank must be thirty inches long, and so fastened as to be at right angles with the sides of the box, alternately fastened, one at one side, the other at the other side of the box. Whenever the stream is small, the county court of the county in which the dam is, or is to be constructed, may permit the box to be made of less dimensions, the court taking good care to have suitable passage. missioner to SEC. 11. The county courts of the respective counties of this Territory shall, at the De- Fish and cember term in each year appointa fish and game Game Com commissioner, whose term of office shall be for be appointed. oneyear and whose duty it shall be to see to the enforcement of the laws for the protection of fish Must see to and game, and one-half of all fines collected for of laws. the violation of said laws shall be paid to the informant, the other half shall be paid into the county treasury; and the said commissioner shall make an annual report to the county court, on annual report enforcement Must make Persons tak or before the thirty-first day of December of each year. SEC. 12. That any person, corporation or association, who has taken or may hereafter take out the waters of any stream or lake, in this Territory, that contains fish, shall be required to place across the head of such canal or ditch a grating head of canal of horizontal bars not more than one inch apart, ing water must place grating at or ditch. sufficiently secured on the sides, top and bottom to prevent fish from escaping into said canal or ditch around said grating. Approved March 9, 1882. Sec. 5, Chap: 21, Laws 1880, amended. CHAPTER XXXIV. OF LAWS OF 1880 AND 1878. AN ACT to amend Sections 5 and 8, Chapter XXI, Laws of Sec. 1, Laws of Utah, 1878. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That section 5, Chapter XXI, Laws of Utah, 1880, is hereby amended by striking out after the word "him," in the fourteenth line, and before the word "and," in the fifteenth line, the following words: "and where and when payable;" and that said section be further amended by inserting after the word "year," and before the word "during," in the thirty-first line, the following words: "Provided, That when the tax due from any such person exceeds five dollars, a further abatement Taxes may be or remission may be made to an amount not exceeding one half of the balance of the tax remaining due; Provided further, That the total amount remitted shall not exceed ten dollars." Proviso, etc. remitted. Sec. 8 amend SEC. 2. That section 8 of said chapter is hereby amended in the fourth line by striking out the ed. word "treasurer," and inserting the word "collector" in lieu thereof; also that all the said section, after the word "county court," in the ninth line, is hereby repealed. Laws 1878, SEC. 3. That section 25 of Chapter VIII, Sec.25, Chap.8, Laws of 1878, is hereby amended by inserting in amended. the seventh line, between the words "all" and "funds," the word "county." SEC. 4. That section 27, Chapter VIII, Laws Section 27 of 1878, is hereby amended by striking out of said amended. section, wherever the same may occur, the words "county treasurer," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "county collector." Approved March 9, 1882. CHAPTER XXXV. OF MANTI CITY CHARTER. AN ACT to amend an Ordinance to Incorporate the City of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That section 1 of An Ordinance to incorporate the city of Manti, approved February 6, 1851, is hereby amended by striking out of said section all that portion thereof after the words "to wit," in the third line of said section, to and including the word "Manti," in the fifteenth line of said section, and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "Commencing at the corner of section twentynine, thirty, thirty-one and thirty-two of Township seventeen, south of Range three east, Salt Lake meridian, thence south on section line four miles, thence west on section line four miles to the east bank of the Sanpitch River, thence northerly along the east bank of said river to a point directly west from the place of beginning, thence east along the section line to the place of beginning, shall be known and designated under the name and style of Manti City." SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 9, 1882. CHAPTER XXXVI. OF SUGAR. $5000 appropriated. How paid. Awarding Committee appointed. AN ACT to encourage the Manufacture of Sugar in the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the territorial treasury, to be drawn upon warrants of the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall issue said warrants upon the order of John Clark, George E. Bourne and Samuel P. Teasdel, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who shall accompany their order with a duly signed certificate, setting forth that the party or parties in whose favor said order shall be drawn, have fully complied with the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. The said John Clark,. George E. Bourne and Samuel P. Teasdel are hereby appointed and constituted an awarding committee, to determine who shall be entitled to receive the above mentioned five thousand dollars, which is hereby given as a premium, to be paid to the manufactur- party or parties who shall, on or before the thirtyfirst day of December, 1882, place in Salt Lake City, Utah, subject to the inspection of said com Premium for ing Sugar. mittee, in suitable and convenient packages, of one hundred pounds each, seven thousand pounds of merchantable brown sugar, manufactured in Utah Territory, out of raw material produced in said Territory during the year in which the award is made, and who shall, by said committee, be declared to have produced and presented for inspection as aforesaid, the seven thousand pounds of sugar superior to all others entered in the competition; Provided, That should there be entered Proviso, etc. two or more best lots of sugar of nearly equal quality, the committee may award the said amount of five thousand dollars to the producers of the two or more best lots of sugar in such sums as the said committee may deem just and equitable; And, Provided further, That if the aforementioned award is not gained in the year 1882, then the provisions of this act are hereby extended to the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1883. SEC. 3. Should any vacancy occur in said committee by unwillingness or disability to act, upon application of any one or more of the competitors for said premium, the remaining mem- How vacanbers of said committee are hereby authorized and cles in Comrequired to appoint others to fill said vacancies; be filled. said appointees shall have the same power as is herein conferred upon the aforesaid committee. Approved March 9, 1882. mittee are to CHAPTER XXXVII. OF COUNTY CLERKS. AN ACT further defining the Duties of County Clerks. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the clerk of each county court is hereby |