24 LAWS RELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 126.] 



An Act for altering a certain clause in an Act entitled, " An Act to prevent the destruc- 

 tion of Salmon, Shad and Alewives, and other Fish in Agawam or Westfield River." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 188. Whereas by the said act no person or 

 persons are allowed to catch any salmon, shad or alewives, with 

 seines, nets, pots, or in any other way, within two miles of the en- 

 trance of the said river into Connecticut River, nor in Connecticut 

 River within half a mile south or forty rods north of the mouth or 

 entrance of the said Agawam into Connecticut River : 



Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That the clause in the said act respecting 

 catching fish in Connecticut River be, and the same is hereby so far 

 altered and repealed as that any person or persons may catch fish in 

 Connecticut River with seines, nets, pots, or in any other wa}^ or 

 place, excepting within one hundred rods directly south of the entrance 

 of the said Agawam into Connecticut River ; anything in the said act 

 to the contrary' notwithstanding. — [March 26, 1788. 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of Alewives and other Fish in Ipswich River, and to 



encourage the inci'ease of the same. 



Sp. Laws, vul. 1, p. 191. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That the owner 

 or owners, occupier or occupiers of the dam across Ipswich River 

 commonly called Warner's mill-dam, and also the owner or owners, 

 occupier or occupiers of the dam of Farlej-'s mill, so called, be and 

 they are hereb}' required, henceforward, at their own cost and charge, 

 in proportion to their several interests, to make and keep open a 

 passage for the fish through their respective dams, from the twentieth 

 day of April to the thirteenth day of June annualh' ; and that the said 

 passages be within four feet of the northerl}- end of each of the said 

 dams, five feet wide, to enter from the under side of the cap-piece, 

 which cap-piece shall be level with the said dam, and as low as the 

 upper side of the mud-sills of the same ; and that during the said 

 time the bottom of the said passage be covered with flat stones or 

 gravel in such manner as that the bottom be not raised higher than 

 the sills ; and that nothing shall be kept, put or placed on the upper 

 side of either of said dams, nor anything put or placed below either 

 of them, within six feet of the sluice-wa}' on the southerly side of 

 them, except a brace on the southerly side of each of the said sluice- 

 wajys, to guard the said cap-pieces, on penalt}' that the owner or 

 owners, occupier or occupiers of either of the aforesaid mills neglect- 

 ing to observe the directions of this act in an}' of the instances before 

 mentioned, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty 

 pounds, to be recovered of them, or either of them, hy action of debt 

 in any court of record proper to try the same, in the count}' where the 

 offence shall be committed, to be disposed of as follows, viz.: one 



