Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 151.

OF FISH, OYSTERS AND GAME.

AN ACT for the Protection of Terrapin in any of the Streams in Sussex County.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons in Sussex County to catch or take or have in his, her or their possession any diamond back terrapin, which shall measure less than four lineal inches in the middle of its under shell nor shall it be lawful for any person or persons in Sussex County to have in his, her or their possession any diamond back terrapin at any time between the first day of March and the first day of August in any year. And any person or persons who shall catch, take or have in his, her or their possession any diamond back terrapin which shall measure less than four lineal inches in the middle of its under shell or shall have in his, her or their possession any diamond back terrapin between the first day of March and the first day of August in any year or who having caught or taken any diamond back terrapin in any seine, net, fyke, weir or fish pound or by means of any other device or in any other way between the first day of March and the first day of August in any year and shall not have returned at once such terrapin so taken to the waters from which said terrapin were taken shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace in the State of Delaware shall be fined not more than five dollars and for each and every terrapin so taken or had in possession shall be fined not more than five dollars.

Section 2. And it shall not be lawful for any person or persons in Sussex County to take by any means or device or manner or have in his, her or their possession at any time between the first day of March and the first day of July in any year any turtle commonly known as snappers, and any person or persons who shall catch or take or have in his, her or their possession any such turtle between the said first day of March and the first day of July in any year shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace in Sussex County shall be fined not more than five dollars and for each and every turtle so taken or had in possession shall be fined not more than five dollars.

Section 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved April 9, A. D. 1907.