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Sfxt. 2. Be it further enacted, That, if any person shall presume 

 to take an}' of said fish in the brook, leading out of Little Long Pond 

 (so-called) into Sniptuet Pond, such person shall be subject to the 

 same penalty' as is provided in said act for taking fish in said Matte- 

 poiset River at a time not allowed by the committee of said town to 

 take said fish in said river. And whereas there is no provision made 

 in said act to prevent persons taking said fish in said river, or by 

 seines in a part of the harbor therein described, before the tenth day 

 of April, anuuall}' : 



Sect. 3. Be U further enacted, That if any person shall presume 

 to take an}' of said fish in said river, or to stretch anj' seine in that 

 part of the harbor into which said river empties which is described in 

 said act, between the last day of March and the tenth day of April, 

 annuallv, such person or persons shall be subject to the same penalty 

 as is provided b}' said act for doing the same between the tenth da}' 

 of April and the twentieth day of May. 



Sect. 4. Be it farther enacted, That the inhabitants of the said 

 town of Rochester, at a legal town-meeting warned for that purpose,, 

 may sell, or dispose of, on such terms and in such manner as they 

 may tliink proper, the exclusive right of taking said fish in said river, 

 for any number of days, not exceeding three in each week, no one 

 sale to be for a longer term than one year. And, whereas, by reason 

 of the swamp and thickets through which said river runs, it may be^ 

 very difficult to procure proof of the violations of this act, and the act 

 to which this is an addition : Therefore, 



Sect. 5. Be it enacted, That if the committee of said town, or 

 any member thereof, shall detect any person attempting to take said 

 fish, on any day, in any place or in any manner other than is allowed 

 by said committee, and said person has any of said fish in his or her 

 custody, or if the said committee, or other member of said town, shall 

 find any such fish in any person's custody, near to, or coming from 

 said river, such person shall be deemed to have taken such fish 

 illegally, and shall be subject to the penalties provided by this acty 

 and the act to which this is an addition, unless such person can give 

 a satisfactory account how he or she came by such fish. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted, That any member of the committee 

 of said town of Rochester, appointed in consequence of said act, may 

 bring forward an action of debt, for the recovery of the penalty or 

 penalties provided in said act, or in this act, in his own name, and 

 the name of the said town of Rochester, and shall be entitled to one- 

 half the sum or sums so recovered, anything in said act to the contrary 

 notwithstanding. — [June 15, 1789. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 290; vol. 3, p. 91; 1810, ch. 60; 1814, 99; 1817, 136; 1820, 70; 



1829, 41.] 



