INLAND FISHERIES. 8d 



Sect. 3. Be it farther enacted. That it shall be lawful for said town 

 of Maiden, at their annual meeting in March or April annually, dur- 

 ing said term, to choose a committee of three, five or seven freeholders 

 of said town, whose dut}- it shall l>e, and they or the major part of 

 them are hereby empowered to keep the stream aforesaid free and 

 clear of all obstructions to the passage of said fish through the whole 

 course of said stream from Mystic River to Ell Pond : provided, that 

 nothing herein contained shall give said committee any right to 

 destroy or impair said mill-dam : provided, also, that nothing in this 

 act contained shall be so construed as in any manner to affect any 

 interest in said stream, or tlie privileges or appurtenances thereto 

 belonging, claimed b}' said town or said Samuel Tufts. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That during the said term of five 

 " j^ears, it shall not 1ie lawful for any person to take any shad or ale- 

 wives in said stream, ofterier or more than two days in each week, 

 viz. : from sunrise on Monda}' to sunrise on Tuesda}' morning ; and 

 from sunrise on Friday morning to sunrise on Saturday morning, in 

 each week. And if any person shall offend against this prohibition, 

 he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten cents for each fish which he 

 may so take, to be recovered, with costs of suit, by any one or more 

 of said committee who may first sue for the same, by action of debt 

 in an}' court proper to try the same ; one half of which forfeiture shall 

 enure to the use of said town, and the other half to him or them who 

 ma}' sue therefor. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted. That this act shall continue and be 

 in force for and during the term of five j'ears next after the passing 

 the same, and no longer, except as to any prosecutions for any penal- 

 ties, or actions for recover}' of any expenses which • may then be 

 depending according to the provisions thereof. — [March 7, 1801. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 105.] 



An Act in addition to an Act, entitled " An Act to regulate the Alevvive Fishery in the 

 Town of Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth, and for repealing all Laws here- 

 tofore made for that purpose," passed in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 

 hundred and ninety-seven. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 433. Whereas it is represented to this court, 

 that by reason of the broken state of the dam, at a place called the 

 Great River Mills, in Bridgewater, it is impracticable to take fish at 

 said place ; therefore, 



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

 town of Bridgewater, the present year only, to take said fish at such 

 times and places as were provided by an act entitled " An Act for 

 regidating the Alewive Fishery in the Town of Bridgewater, in the 

 County of Plymouth, and for repealing all laws heretofore made for 



