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respects conform to such regulations as said committee shall publish 

 in their conditions of sale ; and for each offence in breaking said regu- 

 lations, shall forfeit and pay a sum not more than fifty dollars, nor 

 less than twenty dollars. 



Sect. 8. Be it further enacted, That the committee chosen as 

 aforesaid, or either of them, or any person emploj'ed by them, shall 

 haA'e authority, for the purposes aforesaid, to go on land or meadow 

 of any person through which such river or passage-wa^' passes, with- 

 out being considered trespassers ; and any person who shall molest 

 or hinder said committee, or any of them, or any person employed by 

 them in the execution of their duty, shall be subject to the same penal- 

 ties as by this act is incurred for placing obstructions on said river. 



Sect. 9. Be it further enacted, That every part and clause of the 

 several laws, made for regulating the taking of shad and alewives in 

 Ipswich River and the branches thereof, and for preserving the same, 

 shall cease to operate or have any effect on Miles River and Wenham 

 Pond aforesaid. — [March 9, 1804. 



[1814, 22.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272.] 



An Act in addition to an Act entitled " An Act to regulate the Catching Salmon, Shad 

 and Alewives, and to prevent Obstructions in Merrimack River, and in the other 

 Rivers and Streams running into the same, within this Commonwealth ; and for 

 repealing several Acts heretofore made for that purpose." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 441. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That as long 

 as there shall be upheld and maintained any mill or mills at the 

 mouth of Stoney Brook, so called, in the town of Chelmsford, in the 

 county of Middlesex, or there shall be erected or kept any dam or dams 

 across the said stream, for the working of such mill or mills, it shall 

 be the duty of the owner or occupant of any such mill, to cause to be 

 made and kept open a sluice or passage-way for fish to pass up and 

 down through the dam in the same part thereof, where the passage- 

 way now is, which sluice so to be kept open, shall not be more than 

 eighteen inches nor less than twelve inches in width, and such owner 

 or occupant shall be holden to keep the passage-way below the dam 

 in good repair, as the same is now constructed. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That so long as the owner or 

 occupant of such mill or mills as aforesaid, shall cause to be made 

 and left open a sluice or passage-way through and over such dam as 

 aforesaid, of the form and dimensions aforesaid, for the free passage 

 of fish up and down the said brook, such proprietor or occupant shall 

 not be subject to any prosecution under or by virtue of the act to 

 which this is in addition, nor to any of the forfeitures and penalties 

 therein contained ; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwith- 

 standing. 



