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permit, shall forfeit and pay for each and every additional dozen so 

 taken the sum of twenty-five cents. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted^ That if any boat or craft shall be 

 found within the limits of any of the coves or salt ponds with any 

 more eels on board than this act allows to be taken for each person 

 on board on any one day, or than they are authorized to take by a 

 permit from the selectmen aforesaid, it sliall be the duty of such 

 person or persons as shall be chosen by the said town of Orleans to 

 see to the execution of this law, to seize on such boat or craft and 

 detain the same not exceeding forty-eight hours, in order that the 

 same be attached or arrested by due process of law, and made answer- 

 able for said fines and forfeitui'es, with cost of suit : provided, how- 

 ever, that as soon as the owner or master .of such boat or craft shall 

 pa}- such fines and forfeitures to the treasurer of said town, if he shall 

 pay the same before being sued, such boat or craft shall be discharged, 

 ■with the effects therein. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted. That the said town of Orleans are 

 hereby authorized to choose annuall}' such number of fish-wardens as 

 they mav judge necessary-, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge 

 of their duty, whose duty it shall be to prosecute f )r all offences 

 against this act ; and all fines and forfeitures that shall be incurred 

 b}' virtue thereof shall be one half to the use of him or them who 

 shall sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the said town 

 of Orleans ; and the same shall be recovered with legal costs of suit 

 by an action of debt, in any court proper to try the same. — [June 

 17, 1797. 



An Act to prevent the Catching Fish with Seines in Fresh Pond (so called) in the 



Towns of Cambridge and Watertown. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 165. Sect. 1. That from and after the 



passing of this act it shall not be lawful to catch an}' fish with seines 



in Fresh Pond (so called), situate in the towns of Cambridge and 



Watertown ; and any person who shall be found so catching fish, or 



who shall use a seine in the same pond in any manner whatsoever, 



shall for each offence forfeit a sum not exceeding fiftj' nor less than 



five dollars, to be recovered by an action of the case to the use of the 



person who shall sue for the same. — [June 17, 1797. 



1798. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 313.] 



An Act to empower the Inhabitants of the Town of Middleborough, in the County of 

 Plymouth, to regulate the Price of the Fish called Alewives, taken in said Town, and 

 for Repealing all Laws heretofore made, so far as they respect the regulation of the 

 Price of said Fish taken in said Town. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 192. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and 



after the passing of this act, the inhabitants of the town of Middle- 



