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town in an action of debt, in any court proper to try the same. — 

 [Feb. 23, 1791. 

 [Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 91 ; 1810, 60; 1814, 99; 1817, 136; 1820, 70; 1829, 41 ; 1865, 183.] 



An Act for regulating the Fishery in Connecticut River. 

 Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 296. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That no person 

 or persons shall, between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth 

 day of Jane, in any 3'ear, set or draw any seine or seines, or any other 

 machine, for the purpose of catching fish in Connecticut River, or in 

 any river or stream falling into the same, from the rising of the sun 

 on Saturday morning until the rising of the sun on Tuesday morning. 

 And ever}' person that shall be convicted of any breach of this act 

 shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds, and also the value of the seine 

 and other machines or utensils used in fishing as aforesaid, to be 

 recovered by any person who shall sue for the same before any court 

 having jurisdiction thereof. And all acts heretofore made for regulat- 

 ing the fishery in the rivers and streams aforesaid are hei-ebj' repealed. 

 [March 7, 1791. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 518; vol. 2, p. 154; 1812, 103; 1818, 157; 1835, 137; 1852, 122; 

 1864, 62; 1865, Res. 45; 1866, Res. 80; 1866,238; 1868, 130; 1869, 422; 1870, 369; 

 1874 144; 1875,39; 1878, 124; 1881,47, 103] 



1792. 



An Act to regulate the taking of Fish called alewives in the Town of Middleborough, in 

 the County of Plymouth, and for repealing a certain Law made for that pui'pose, in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine. 



[Additional Acts July 8, 1798; Jan. 21, 1802. Repeals Act of 1749; revived and made 

 perpetual March 7, 1797. Again repealed June 22, 1797. The Act 1764 made peri^et- 

 ual March, 7, 1797.) 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 313. "Whereas the laws already made for 

 regulating the taking fish called alewives, at the places called the Old 

 Stone Ware and Assawomset Brook, in said town, are found incon- 

 venient. For remedy whereof, 



Sect. 1. That from and after the passing this act, it shall and 

 may be lawful for the inhabitants of said town, annuall}', to farm or 

 hire out the privilege of taking said fish at the place called the Old 

 Stone W^are, and at such place in Assawomset, in said town, as the 

 inhabitants thereof shall vote and order, to such person or persons as 

 shall appear to give most for said privilege, four daj-s in a week, at 

 said Stone Ware, viz. : Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- 

 day ; and at Assawomset Brook three da3"s in a week, viz. : Mon- 

 day, Tuesday and Wednesda}', beginning at midnight preceding 

 Tuesday', and ending at midnight succeeding Friday, at said Stone 

 Ware, and at midnight preceding Monday, and ending at midnight 

 succeeding Wednesday, at said Assawomset Brook; said fish to be 



