118 LAWS RELATING TO 



An Act to regulate the Taking of the Fish called Shad and Alewives within the 

 limits of the Town of Hinghani.and for the effectual securing to the said Town the 

 advantages thereof. 



1805, 91. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the taking and disposing 

 of the said fish called shad and alewives in the town of Hingliam 

 shall be under the care and management of a committee of the said 

 town, who shall dispose of said fish in such manner as they shall 

 judge most beneficial to the town, and shall render to the town treas- 

 urer an account of the proceeds thereof on or before the first day of 

 November annually ; and the said committee shall have a reasonable 

 allowance for their services, and lay their account thereof before the 

 selectmen of the said town for their allowance and approbation ; and 

 the said committee shall consist of five freeholders, chosen by ballot 

 in the month of March or April annually, who shall be sworn or 

 affirmed to the faithful discharge of their duty ; and if any person 

 chosen to serve on the said committee, or if chosen shall neglect to 

 take the oath or affirmation for the space of seven days after being 

 legally notified of such choice, he shall forfeit and pa}- to the use of 

 the said town the sum of ten dollars. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said committee, or a 

 majority of them, shall have full power and authority to open a suffi- 

 cient passage-way for said fish from the waters in Ware River, so 

 called, into Accord Pond, so called, and to remove from out of the 

 river, brooks or streams issuing from Accord Pond, any obstructions 

 that ma}' be made to the free passing of the said fish into the said 

 pond, or repassing from the said pond to the sea ; and the said com- 

 mittee, or either of them, going on to the land of any person or 

 persons for this purpose, shall not be deemed trespassers ; and the 

 said committee, or the major part of them, shall determine the partic- 

 ular places where the said fish shall be taken, and give public notice 

 thereof hy posting up one or more notifications in some conspicuous 

 place or places in the said town, on or before the first day of May 

 annually ; and the said fish shall not be taken on any other days than 

 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, between the rising and the setting 

 of the sun on the said days, nor by any other instrument than by a 

 scoop or dip-net. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That no person shall catch or take 

 an}' of the said fish in any of the waters issuing from Accord Pond, 

 or in any other streams within the said town, without the leave of the 

 said committee, or the major part of them ; and whoever shall presume, 

 at any time hereafter, to take, kill or haul on shore any of the said 

 fish, with seines or drag-nets, in said Ware River, through which the 

 said fish pass into the said pond, or shall with any seine or drag-net, 

 or in any other way obstruct the passage of the said fish to or from 



