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

 the preservation of or taking the said fish in the said river and streams, 

 be and they hereby are repealed. — [March 10, 1797. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 271.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 296.] 

 An Act to repeal an Act passed the twentieth day of June, one thousand seven hundred 

 and eighty-eiifht, entitled " An Act to prevent the Destruction of Salmon and Shad 

 in Connecticut River " 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 154. Whereas the beneficial effects contem- 

 plated by the act aforesaid have not been produced thereby, and the 

 further continuance thereof is unnecessary : therefore, 



Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That the act aforesaid, and every part 

 thereof, from and after the passing of this act shall be and the same 

 is hereb}^ repealed. — [March 11, 1797. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272.] 

 An Act in addition to an Act passed March ninth, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, 

 entitled "An Act regulating the taking of the Fish called Alewives in the several 

 Streams emptying into Merrimack River, in the Town of Andover." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 155. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That such part 

 of the fifth enacting clause in the afore-recited act as limits and deter- 

 mines the price of the aforesaid fish to one-fifth of a dollar for each 

 hundred taken and distributed, be and hereby is repealed. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted, That the inhabitants of said 

 Andover, at their annual meeting in the month of March or April, be 

 and are hereby authorized and empowered to determine and state the 

 price of the aforesaid fish per hundred ; and the committee or com- 

 mittees, as in said act are directed, to supply the persons applying 

 for said fish at such rates as the town ma}' determine and direct, under 

 the penalties provided in the act to which this is in addition : provided, 

 such stated price be posted up in manner as directed in the afore- 

 recited act respecting the places of taking said fish. — [March 11, 

 1797. 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of the Eel Fishery in the Town of Orleans, in the 

 County of Barnstable, and to preserve and regulate the same in the several Coves 

 and Salt Ponds within the said Town. 



Sp, Laws, vol. 2, p. 162. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and 



after the first day of September next, it shall not be lawful for an}"- 



person to take from any of the coves and salt ponds in the town of 



Orleans, more than three dozen of eels on any one day, without a 



permit in writing from the major part of the selectmen of said town, 



expressing the quantit}^ permitted to be taken ; and every person who 



shall take any of said eels from any of said coves and salt ponds 



exceeding the number of three dozen in any one da}' without such 



