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borough aforesaid are hereb}' empowered annualh', at any town meet- 

 ing legally warned for that purpose, to establish the price of said fisli 

 taken in said town, provided said price be not above the rate of 

 twenty-five cents per hundred. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted, That all the laws heretofore made, 

 so far as the}- respect the i-egulation of the price of said fish taken in 

 said town, be and are hereby repealed. — [Feb. 8, 1798. 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of Fish in Concord River, in the County of 



Middlesex. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 213. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That if any 

 person or persons, after the first day of April next, shall take or 

 catch any fish in Concord River, in the county of Middlesex, or in 

 any pond or stream which empties into the same, after sunset and 

 before sunrise, witli the use of either torch or spear, every person so 

 offending shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding 

 five dollars, nor less than two dollars, to be recovered in an action of 

 debt, one half to him who shall sue for the same and the other half to 

 the town in which the fish shall be so caught or taken. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall 



erect any wear across any of said waters, and thereby take any of 



said fish, or obstruct them in their passage through the same, ever}' 



person so ofTending shall forfeit a sum not less than three dollars nor 



more than ten for each offence, to be recovered in manner and to the 



use aforesaid. — [March 1, 1798. 



[1835, 89.] 



An Act for the Preservation of the Fish called Alewives, in Weweantit River, in the 

 County of Plymouth, and for Regulating the Taking said Fish, and for Repealing all 

 Laws heretofore made for that purpose. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 214. Sect. 1. Beit enacted, That the several 

 towns of Rochester, Wareham and Carver shall, at their town meeting 

 in the fall of the year annuall}', respectively choose a committee of 

 three persons in each town, whose duty it shall be, in the month of 

 March annually, to sell at public vendue the privilege of taking said 

 fish at such places, not exceeding three in said towns, and on such 

 days, not exceeding three in each week, as said committee shall agree 

 upon and pul^lish in their conditions of sale, in which conditions said 

 committee shall also express the price at which it may be lawful for 

 said purchasers to sell said fish when taken, not exceeding the rate of 

 twentj'-five cents for one hundred of said fish ; and said committee, 

 before they enter upon the execution of their office, shall be sworn 

 to the faithful and impartial performance of their duty in the same 

 manner as other town officers. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the committee of the town of 

 Rochester the first year, the committee of the town of Wareham the 



