fining same and fixing penalties for violations thereof." Approved March 27, 1918. CHAPTER 66. AN ACT to abolish certain offices, terminating the terms of the present incumbents, repealing appropriations provided for such offices and enlarging and extending the powers, duties and privileges of certain other offices. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky: $ 1. That the State Tax Commission is hereby invested with authority to, and shall discharge all the powers, duties and privileges that are now conferred by law upon the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles "and the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners in relation to said department" and the Supervisor of Revenue Agents of the State at Large. § 2. That office of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and that of the Supervisor of Revenue Agents for the State at large are hereby abolished and the terms of the present incumbents are hereby terminated. § 3. The office or position of compiling clerk and stenographer as provided for in section 141 of chapter 43 Acts 1916, is hereby abolished and the duties required to be performed thereunder by the Adjutant General and the said clerk and stenographer are to be performed hereafter by the Commissioner of Confederate Pensions. The Commissioner of Confederate Pensions shall receive no compensation for the performance of the duties required by this act. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Acts-13 Approved March 27, 1918. CHAPTER 67. AN ACT making it lawful to take certain varieties of fish from streams forming the boundary between this state or any other state or states, and from the navigable streams in this state by seins or nets, and providing the necessary regulations therefor, defining the powers and duties of certain officers and defining navigable and non-navigable streams. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section One. A navigable stream within the meaning if this act, is a stream which has been improved by locks and dams and a non-navigable stream is one which has not been so improved. Section Two. That it shall be lawful for any one to take or catch by the use of seins and hoop nets without wings, the mesh thereof to be not less than one and one-half inches square, any fish from the streams forming the boundary or any part of the boundary between this state and any other state or states and from the navigable streams in this state, any fish with seins and hoop nets without wings the mesh thereof to be not less than two inches square, which is under lock and dam as defined by section one of this act. Provided, further that no person shall catch or attempt to catch any fish by seins or nets or place any seins or nets in any of these streams within two hundred yards of the mouth of any stream entering into such waters, nor within two hundred yards of the mouth of any navigable stream within the state, nor within two hundred yards of any lock or dam located on such stream or streams, nor above the last lock and dam in any navigable stream. It shall also be unlawful for any one to operate or have in possession any seins or nets pursuant to the provisions of this act, unless such person or persons shall have procured a license so to do, and a metal tag for the use or possession of each net or seine, and complied with the provisions hereinafter set out. Provided, further, that any large or small mouth black bass, if caught in seins or nets, shall be immediately returned without injury to the water from which taken, provided further, that no fish shall be caught or taken under the provisions of this act during the month of May of each year, and provided further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent dealers or manufacturers from having seins or nets in possession for the purpose of sale. Section Three. County Court Clerks to Issue License and Tags for Seins and Nets for Residents and non-Residents.-The county court clerk shall issue all fishing license and tags to all residents and non-residents, complying with the provisions of this act and so sign the same and shall require the persons to whom the license and tags are issued to sign his or her name on the margin thereof. He shall keep a correct and complete copy of all licenses issued in a book to be furnished by the Game & Fish Commission, which record shall remain in his office and be open to the inspection of the public during all office hours. Section Four. Money Received from License.— How Disposed of. The county clerk shall retain of the money received for each license issued the sum of twenty-five cents which cover the swearing of the applicant to the affidavit referred to in this act, and all other services under this act, and shall pay the balance to the state treasurer, on the first of each month, which amount shall be converted into the Game & Fish Protection Fund and the said county clerk shall report to the said Game & Fish Commission on the first day of each month the number of licenses issued and the amount of money remitted to the State Treasurer. Section Five. License Delivered to and Returned by County Court Clerks.-The Game & Fish Commission shall deliver to each county clerk in the state before April first, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and thereafter ten days before the first of January in each year as many licenses and tags as may be required, and charge said clerk for the number issued to him. On the fifteenth day of January of each year and within ten days thereafter each county clerk shall return to the Commission all unused licenses, stubs of licenses used and unused tags, which he has received for the preceding calendar year. The licenses and tags herein authorized shall specify the calendar year for which it is issued and shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of said calendar year, except as here inbefore provided. Section Six. No Person Shall Seine or Net Fish Without License.-No person shall be entitled to own or store or have in possession any net or seine or to use the same for fishing in the streams above mentioned, unless he has first procured his license and attached a metal tag to each net or seine, as provided for in this act, whether said net or seine is in use or not, except as provided for in section two as to dealers and manufacturers. Section Seven. Seining and Netting Fish Without License Prohibited. Any person who uses a net or seine in this state as authorized by this act, without first procuring a license permitting him or her to do so or any person who loans or transfers his or her fishing license or tag or tags to another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifteen dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Section Eight. Failure to Pay Fine.-If any person or persons convicted for the violation of any of the sections of this statute, fail to pay the fine or fines as fixed by any section of this chapter, they shall be confined in the county jail or placed at labor upon the public works of said county for any length of time, not exceeding one day for every one and one-half dollars of such fine. Section Nine. Resident License and Tags for Nets-How Obtained.-Any person who has been a bona fide resident of this state for one year then past, may procure a fisherman's net license and tags for each net to be used for himself or herself, by filing his or not affidavit with the county court clerk of the county in which he or she resides, stating his or her name, age, place of residence, post office address, height, color, color of eyes and hair, giving the number of nets to be used or possessed and the fact whether he or she can write his or her name and by paying the said county court clerk the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents for the license and metal tag for one net and one dollar for each additional tag for each net to be used. When the metal tag is attached to the net it shall be lawful for the licensee to possess or use the nets in any streams mentioned in section two of this act, but nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing any one to go upon the private property without the owner's consent. Section Ten. Resident License and Tags for Seines. Any person who has been a bona fide resident of this state for one year then past may procure a fisherman's seine license and tag or tags for himself or herself by filing his or her affidavit with the |