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taken at said Stone Ware with scoop-nets onl}^ ; and at said Assa- 

 "womset Brook with scoop-nets or set-nets onl3\ 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That the purchasers of said privi- 

 lege shall not ask or receive for said fish when taken, more than one 

 shilling per hundred,* and in that proportion for a greater or smaller 

 qaanliiy ; and that the purchasers of said privilege shall be obliged 

 to sell said fish at that rate, at all times when they shall have any on 

 hand, when applied to, upon the peualt}' of five pounds, to be recovered 

 by action of debt, in any court proper to try the same, for each neg- 

 lect or refusal ; one moiet}- thereof to the use of the poor of said town, 

 and the other moiety to the use of any person who shall prosecute for 

 the same ; and it shall be the duty of the inhabitants of the said town, 

 annually, to provide for such of the poor inhabitants thereof as shall 

 be unable to procure them for themselves, such quantities of said fish 

 as shall be thought necessary, who shall receive the same gratis ; 

 and in order thereto. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That said inhabitants shall choose 

 a committee of nine discreet, judicious men, one in each constable's 

 district in said town, in the fall of the year annuall}', who shall report 

 to the overseers of the poor of said town, previous to the ensuing 

 spring, the number and names of such poor inahbitants, the number 

 in each familj', and their situation ; and it shall be the duty of such 

 overseers to apportion to every such family such quantity of said fish 

 as the}' in their discretion shall think necessary, and shall draw 

 their orders on the purchasers of said privilege for the same, which 

 orders shall be taken and received by said purchasers, equal to 

 monej', and shall be received of them by the treasurer of said town 

 equal to mone}', in discharge of the purchase money of the privilege 

 aforesaid. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted. That any person who shall pre- 

 sume to take any of the said fish in any other wa}'^, at any other time, 

 or any other place in said river or brook, or anj- parts or dependencies 

 thereof, than those prescribed by this act, ever}- person concerned there- 

 in shall forfeit and pay for each ofl^ence the sum of forty shillings, to 

 be recovered by action of debt in an}' court proper to try the same, 

 one moiety thereof to the treasurer of said town for the use of the 

 poor thereof, and the other moiety to the party who shall sue therefor. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That the scoop-net, or other instru- 

 ment by which any person shall take or attempt to take any of said 

 fish contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall be for- 

 feit, and any other person shall have liberty to seize and secure the same 

 to his own use ; and if said scoop-net or other instrument, forfeited 

 as aforesaid, shall be carried away, concealed or withheld, so that 



* The price fixed by this Act repealed Feb. 8, 1798. 



