48 LAWS RELATING TO 



extend to or be considered so as to effect an act passed in the 

 year of our Lord seventeen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An 

 Act in addition to an act entitled 'An Act to prevent the unnecessary 

 destruction of alewives in the town of Middleborough.'" — [Jan. 30, 

 1792. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, pp. 192, 469; 1815, 111 ; 1819, 137.] 



[Sp, Laws, vol. 1, p. 269.] 



Ax Act for regulating the taking the Fish called Alewives, in their passage up Indian 

 Head River, so called, between the Towns of Pembroke and Hanover, in the County 

 of Plymouth, into a pond in said Town of Pembroke, known by the name of Indian 

 Head Pond. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 326. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That there shall 

 be sluice-waj's made and opened through, or passage-wa3's made round 

 all and each of the dams standing on or across the river aforesaid, 

 sufficient in the judgment of the major part of the committee or com- 

 mittees of the aforesaid towns of Pembroke and Hanover, to be chosen 

 as is hereafter provided, for the passage of the said fish up the said 

 river to the aforesaid Indian Head Pond, in the town of Pembroke. 



Sect. 2. Be it enacted, That the owner or owners of the several 

 dams that now are, or hereafter may be erected on said Lidian Head 

 River, shall make and provide such sluice-ways or passage-ways as 

 are by this act required to be opened and kept open from the tenth 

 day of April to the twentieth day of Ma}' annually. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That if an}^ owner or owners of 

 any dams that now are, or may hereafter be erected on or across said 

 river, shall refuse or neglect to open and keep open such good and 

 sufficient sluice-wa}' or passage-way for the term aforesaid, he shall 

 forfeit and pay the sum of fifi}' pounds, to be recovered by action of 

 debt in any court proper to tr}' the same, one moiety to him or them 

 that shall sue and prosecute for the same, and the other moiety to the 

 aforesaid towns of Pembroke and Hanover. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted. That the towns of Pembroke and 

 Hanover, at their respective town-meetings for the choice of town 

 officers, in the month of March or April annually-, shall choose at 

 least three persons, freeholders in each of said towns, who shall be a 

 committee to carry this act into effect, an}- four of whom shall be a 

 quorum, and shall be sworn as other town officers are, to the faithful 

 discharge of the duties of their office ; and if any person chosen as 

 aforesaid, and accepting of the said trust, shall neglect to take an 

 oath as aforesaid within seven da3's from his being so chosen, he shall 

 forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings ; or being chosen and sworn, 

 if he shall neglect to perform his duty he shall forfeit and pay the 

 sum of five pounds ; the said forfeitures to be sued for and recovered 



