54 LAWS EELATING TO 



respective rivers, wlio shall neglect or refuse to make, provide and 

 continue a sluice-way as aforesaid, or tliat, after such sluice-way la 

 opened as aforesaid, shall shut or obstruct or cause the same to be 

 shut or obstructed during the term the said sluice-way is to be kept 

 open as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty pounds for 

 each offence. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted^ That the said town of Dartmouth, 

 at their annual meeting for the choice of town officers in the month of 

 March or April annually, are hereby authorized and empowered to 

 choose a committee consisting of not more than twelve nor less than 

 two suitable persons for inspectors of the said river, whose duty it 

 shall be, within four days after their appointment, to put up in four 

 public places nearest the said river, a notification or notifications 

 under their hands or under the hands of the major part of them, 

 pointing out the time when and designating the places where the said 

 fish may be taken in the said river ; and if an}' person or persons 

 shall pull down, mar or deface such notification or notifications, lie or 

 she shall for each ofl'ence forfeit and pay ten shillings ; and if such 

 committee shall refuse or negelect to put up such notification or noti- 

 fications, within the said term of four days, such committee shall 

 forfeit and pay ten shillings. And any person who shall presume to 

 take any of the said fish in the said rivers, except at the times and 

 places pointed out and designated by the said committee as aforesaid, 

 shall forfeit and pay three pounds for each offence. 



Sect. 3. Be it farther enacted, That if any person or persons shall 

 make an}' wear or wears, or an}' other obstruction to hinder the pas- 

 sage of said fish up the said rivers, each person so offending shall 

 forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds ; and any person who shall 

 take or catch any of the said fish in the said rivers, with any other 

 instrument than a dip-net, shall forfeit and pay four pounds for each 

 offence. 



Sect 4. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons 

 shall set or draw any seine, drag-net or marsh-net in the said 

 rivers, from and after the tenth day of April to the twentieth day 

 of May annually, each person so offending shall forfeit and pay ten 

 pounds. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted. That if any person or persons 

 shall set or draw any seine, drag-net or marsh-net in the said rivers 

 or ponds belonging to the said town of Dartmouth, for the taking any 

 fish (menhaden excepted) at any time whatsoever, he or they so 

 offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted, That all the forfeitures incurred 

 by this act shall accrue to the said town of Dartmouth, to be recov- 

 ered by the treasurer of the said town, in an action of debt, in any 



