4 LAWS RELATING TO 



psous have anoyed the same by casting theire ballast neare the 

 shore where such conveniency is ; or by leaveing the garbidge of fish 

 or dead fish to lye there roting, whereby such anoyace is : 



This Court cloth therefore order, That whosoever shall treaspas in 

 an}' of the said kinds of annoyance shall pay the sume of forty shil- 

 lings to the Collonie's use for ever}' such default unto the pson that 

 the county doth appoint to lookp. after the same ; alsoe, this court 

 doth further order, tJiat whosoever of our inhabitants that draw mack- 

 erell on shore there, shall pay 'to 'the Collonie's use sixpence p. bar- 

 rell for every barrell soe taken or tl;e quantity that ma}' amount to a 

 barrell ; and for every barrell or the quantitie thereof soe taken by 

 any forraigners in the aforesaid place shalbe payed one shilling and 

 sixpence to the Collonie's use by the pson or psons that soe fish 

 there ; and at the begining of any voyage attempted there, the pson 

 or persons soe doing shall att the enterance an the voyage put in suf- 

 ficient cecuritie unto the pson appointed by the court under this trust 

 for the payment of the aforesaid sume or sumes. (Continued on 

 page 162.) 



(Page 162.) Whereas wee have formerly seen great inconvenience 

 of taking mackerell att unseasonable times, whereby there encrease 

 is greatly deminished, and that it hath bine proposed to the court of 

 the Massachusetts that some course might be taken for preventing 

 the same, and that they have lately drawne up an order that hence- 

 forth noe mackerell shalbee caught, except for spending while fresh, 

 before the first of July annually, on penaltie of the losse of the same, 

 the one halfe to the informer and the other halfe to the use of the 

 Collonie ; and this order to take place from the 20th of this instant 

 June. 



1682. 



(Page 197.) The law prohibited the catching of fish before they 

 have spaumed is to be revived by the Comissioners att theire next 

 session. 



(Page 283.) For the better improving of fishing for mackrel at 

 the Cape with saynes or nets ; that the fish be not wholly destroyed 

 or driven off the shoar, witli constant beating and shooting at them 

 with their nets and saynes : 



It is ordered by this Court, &c., That none shall set, shoot or hall 

 sayne on shore with mackrel at the Cape before the fifteenth day of 

 October yearly, nor after the twentieth day of November, on penalty 

 of forfeiting for any mackrel so taken, without the compass of this 

 time, eight shillings a barrel to the Colonie's use. 



And that so good a commodity be not spoiled nor impaired by 

 gripple persons that only minde their present benefit ; but that it may 



