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recovered for any breaches aforesaid, except such as are mentioned 

 in the fourth section of this act, shall, together with the proceeds of 

 said fishery, be equally divided between the aforesaid towns ; and 

 the treasurers aforesaid respectively ma}-, in behalf of their respective 

 towns, recover in an action on the case, of any person or persons, 

 corporation or corporations holding the same, one-third part thereof 

 in an\' court proper to try the same. 



Sect. 8. Be it further enacted, That the purchasers of the right 

 of taking said fish, shall in all respects conform themselves to such 

 regulations as the committee aforesaid shall publish in their conditions 

 of sale, and for each offence in breaking said regulations, shall forfeit 

 and pa}' the sum of twenty dollars. 



Sect. 9, Be it further enacted, That any of the committee afore- 

 said may be admitted as witnesses in any prosecution for the breach 

 of an}- regulations respecting said fishery ; and said committee shall 

 receive for their services, out of the proceeds of said fishery, seventy 

 cents to each person for each day's service. 



Sect, 10. Be it farther enacted, That all laws heretofore made 

 respecting said river, be and the same are hereby repealed, excepting 

 so far as may affect any penalties already incurred for the breach of 

 said laws. — [March 1, 1798. 



[1819, 118; 1836,218.] 



An Act for the better Preservation of the Fish called Alewives, in Mill River, so called, 

 in Taunton, in the County of Bristol, and for regulating the Taking of said Fish in 

 said River. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 220. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and 

 after the passing of this act, the selectmen of the said town of 

 Taunton, for the time being, shall be and the}' are hereby constituted 

 inspectors of the said Mill River, whose duty it shall be, within ten 

 days after being chosen to their said office of selectmen, to take an 

 oath for the faithful discharge of their said trust as inspectors, before 

 some justice of the peace for said county of Bristol, or the clerk of the 

 said town of Taunton ; and also, within the same ten days, to post up 

 at some public places in said town, near said river, an advertisement 

 under the hands of the major part of them, pointing out the manner, 

 lime and place, in which said fish may be taken in said river (provided 

 that the time of taking said fish shall not exceed three days in each 

 week). And if any person shall pull down or deface such advertise- 

 ment, he or she shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar. And if 

 any person shall presume to take any of said fish in said river, at any 

 other time or place, or in any other manner, than those mentioned in 

 said advertisement, he or she so oflTending shall forfeit and pay for 

 each oflTence a sum not less than one dollar nor more than twenty 

 dollars. 



