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of forfeiting, for eacli tide when such sluice-gate is not hoisted or said 

 passage-way so opened, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars nor less 

 than five dollars. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted^ That the committee appointed as 

 aforesaid are hereb}^ authorized and empowered to lease, or sell at 

 public vendue, or otherwise, the privilege of taking and disposing of 

 said fish, when they shall deem it expedient ; and the person or per- 

 sons purchasing the said privilege, shall pay one moiety thereof to 

 the treasurer of the town of Salem, and the other moiety thereof to 

 the treasurer of the town of Danvers, on or before the last day of Sep- 

 tember, annually, under the penalty of paying one hundred dollars 

 for the use of the said towns ; and no person hiring or purchasing 

 said privilege, shall demand of any person more than at the rate of 

 thirt}'^ cents for each hundred of said fish thus sold, on penalty of pay- 

 ing five dollars for each offence ; and any person or persons taking 

 any of said fish, not being authorized by the said fish committee, shall 

 pay a fine of not more than ten dollars nor less than one dollar. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That when the committees afore- 

 said, or either of them, or an}^ member thereof, shall detect any per- 

 son or persons, not authorized by said committee, in attempting to 

 take any of said fish, and shall find such fish with such person or per- 

 sons, they shall be doomed to have taken said fish, and be subject to 

 the penalties of this act accordingly ; and anj' net or other machine 

 found in an}- such river or stream for the purpose of taking said fish 

 (not authorized by said committees) shall be forfeited ; and no person 

 by reason of his being one of either of the committees aforesaid shall 

 thereby be disqualified from being a witness in any prosecution for a 

 breach of this act. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted, That an}' justice of the peace in 

 either of the said towns of Salem and Danvers, may hear and deter- 

 mine any complaint under this act, to the amount of thirteen dollars 

 and thirty-three cents, his being an inhabitant of the said town not- 

 withstanding ; and in case any minor or minors shall offend against 

 any part of this act and thereby incur any or eitlier of the penalties 

 aforesaid, in all such cases the parent, master or guardian of such 

 minor or minors shall be answerable therefor ; and in case of a prose- 

 cution of such minor or minors, the action shall be commenced against 

 the parent, master or guardian of such minor or minors, respectively, 

 and judgment rendered accordingly. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted. That all sums recovered as forfeited 

 by this act shall be appropriated, one moiety thereof to the prosecu- 

 tors, and the other moiety equally divided between the said towns of 

 Salem and Danvers. 



Sect. 8. Be it further enacted^ That all laws heretofore passed, 



