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may agree on the place of holding and the manner of calling any 

 intermediate meeting ; may choose a clerk, whose duty it shall be to 

 record in a book, kept for that purpose, all votes, regulations and 

 orders which may be passed b}' said agents, or the major part of them, 

 during the period for which they are chosen ; and at the end of said 

 period, it shall be the duty of said clerk to transfer said book to the 

 person who may be chosen to succeed him in said office. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted^ That the agents aforesaid, at any 

 meeting established by this act, or called pursuant to any agreement 

 of said agents, may, in behalf of said towns, and for their use and 

 benefit, sell the right, and regulate the times, places and manner of 

 taking said fish within the towns aforesaid, not exceeding the time 

 aforesaid ; and the proceeds of the sale of said right shall, from time 

 to time, be divided between said towns, according to the sums they 

 shall, respective!}', pay towards the maintenance of the bridge, in 

 said Watertown, over Charles River; and the said agents shall forth- 

 with, after establishing such rules and regulations, and determining by 

 whom said fish may be taken, cause a copy thereof, under their hands, 

 to be posted in some public place in each of said towns ; and if any 

 person or persons, other than those to whom said right shall be sold 

 as aforesaid, shall take any fish of the description aforesaid, within 

 the towns aforesaid ; or if any person to whom said right shall be 

 sold as aforesaid, shall take any of said fish at an\' other time, in any 

 other place, or in any other manner than shall be expressed in the 

 conditions of the sale to him, such person so offending shall forfeit 

 and pay treble the value of the fish so taken, to be recovered in an 

 action on the case, to the use of an}- person who may sue for the 

 same. 



Sect. 4. Be it farther enacted, That if the agents of either of the 



towns aforesaid shall neglect to attend at any meeting, called as 



aforesaid or appointed by this act, the votes passed, and the orders 



and regulation established by the major part of the agents who shall 



attend said meeting, shall be as binding on said towns, and as good 



and valid to all intents and purposes, as they would be were the whole 



of said agents present at said meeting. And in deciding any question 



which may come up before said agents, in executing the duty assigned 



them by this act, one vote only shall be allowed to each town. — 



[March 2, 1798. 



[1815, 56 ; 1823, 76.] 



