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made for that purpose has been found inadequate to the purposes 

 thereby intended : 



Sect. 1. Be U enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the 

 inhabitants of the said town of Pembroke, at a meeting legally and 

 rogularh' assembled for that purpose, from time to time, and at all 

 times hereafter, to determine and order how, in what manner, by 

 whom and at what place or places, time or times in the year, said fish 

 may be taken within the town aforesaid, and shall cause a cop}^ of 

 such order, attested b}' the town clerk, to be posted up in some public 

 place in said town, whereunto all persons shall conform with regard 

 to the taking and disposing of said fish, on penalty that the offender 

 against the same shall forfeit and pa}' a sum not exceeding three 

 pounds, nor less than forty shillings, for each offence, at the discretion 

 of the justice before whom the same shall be tried. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That the inhabitants of the town 

 of Pembroke shall be, and hereby are, empowered and directed annu- 

 all}' to choose three or more persons, being freeholders in the said 

 town, to see that this act be duly observed, agrceablj^ to the directions 

 of said town ; and each person so chosen shall be sworn faithfull}' to 

 discharge the duties required of him b}' this act ; and the said com- 

 mittee are hereby authorized and empowered to cause the natural 

 course of the stream, through which the said fish pass, to be kept open 

 and without obstruction, and to remove an}' such as maj' be found 

 therein ; and the said committee, or either of them, shall have author- 

 it}', for those purposes, to go on the land or meadow of any person 

 through which such stream runs, without being considered as trespass- 

 ers ; and any person who shall hinder or molest said committee, or 

 either of them, in the execution of his or their office, or shall obstruct 

 any passage-way in said rivers or streams within the said town of 

 Pembroke, otherwise than may be allowed of by the said town, he or 

 they shall forfeit and pay a fine for every- such oflTence, not exceeding 

 the sum of five pounds, nor less than three pounds. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That if the committee, or either 

 of them, shall detect any person or persons in attempting to take any 

 of the said fish at any time, or in any place, or in any manner, other- 

 wise than is allowed by the said town, or shall find such fish with such 

 person or persons, they shall be deemed to have taken the said fish 

 unlawfully, and shall be subject to the penalties of this act accordingly, 

 unless such person or persons can make it appear on trial that they 

 came by the said fish in some other way. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said committee be em- 

 powered, and are hereby empowered and authorized, to open the 

 sluice-ways through any dam or dams that are or may be erected 



