1871-72 N.C. Pub. Laws 241, ch. 152, §§ 1-3

Abstract

That it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or destroy with seins, nets, firearms, bows and arrows or by muddying or stirring the waters, or by striking any fish of any kind in the waters of Black or South rivers in the counties of Now Hanover, Sampson, Cumberland and Harnett and of the waters of Six Runs in the counties of New Hanover and Sampson, between the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth day of August in each and every year.