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table, pa}' a fine foi* every such offence not exceeding ten dollars nor 

 less tlian three dollars. 



Sect. 2. Be itfurfher enacted. That if any person or persons shall 

 take any of the said fish in the said rivers, streams or ponds afore- 

 said, at an}- time, in an}' place, or in any manner other than shall be 

 allowed by the said commiltee as aforesaid, each person so offending 

 for each and every offence shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine not 

 exceeding three dollars nor less than one dollar, if the quantity of fish 

 so taken is less than one barrel, but if the quantity so taken shall be 

 one barrel or more, such person or persons so offending shall forfeit 

 and pay for each and every barrel of fish so taken, the sum of three 

 dollars. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enac^ecU That if the committee aforesaid, or 

 either of them, shall detect any person or persons in taking any of 

 the said fish, at any time, in any place, or in any manner otherwise 

 than is allowed by the said committee, or shall find such fish with 

 such person or persons, such person or persons shall be deemed to 

 have taken the said fish unlawfully, and shall be subject to the 

 penalties of this act accordingly ; unless such person or persons can 

 make it appear, on trial, that they came by the said fish in some other 

 way. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That all the forfeitures incurred by 

 virtue of this act, shall be to the use of the said town of Falmouth, 

 to be recovered by an action on the case, in any court proper to try 

 the same, to be brought by the treasurer thereof. — [March 2, 1798. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 289; 1825, 63; 1847, 94; 1851, 98; 1858, 130.] 



An Act authorizing the Inhabitants of the Towns of AVatertovvn, Weston and Waltham, 

 in the County of Middlesex, to regulate the Taking of the Fish called Shad and Ale- 

 wives within the Limits of the said Town. 



Sp, Laws, vol. 2, p. 224. Sect. 1. Be it further enacted, That 

 from and after the ninth day of February, which will be in the year 

 of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, it shall be lawful for 

 the inhabitants of the towns aforesaid to sell the right, and regulate 

 the times, places and manner of taking the said fish, within the limits 

 of said towns, not exceeding, in point of time, three days in each 

 week ; and the inhabitants of said towns respectively, at their annual 

 meeting in March, are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint 

 agents, whose duty it shall be to carry into execution the purposes of 

 this act. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That there shall be a meeting of 

 the agents of said towns, holden annually on the last Monday in 

 March, at two of the clock in the afternoon, at the public house in 

 said Watertown which may be situated the nearest the bridge, in 

 same town, over Charles River ; at which meeting the agents so chosen 



