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rendered against any parent, master or guardian in such case, in the 

 same manner as for his or their personal offence. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted. That no person, by reason of being 

 an inhabitant of said town, or one of said committee, shall l)e hereby 

 disqualified from being a witness in any prosecution for a breach of 



this act. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted. That all laws heretofore made and 

 provided for regulating the alewive fishery on said brook, be and the 

 same are hereby repealed. — [March 1, 1799. 



1800. 



An Act for regulating the Alewive Fishery in the Gulf Stream, so called, that runs be- 

 tween the towns of Scituate in the County of Plymouth, and Cohasset in the County 

 of Norfolif. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 375. Whereas the town of Scituate has legally 

 granted to Elisha Doane, his heirs and assigns forever, all their right, 

 title and interest in and to the said Gulf Stream, on certain conditions 

 in that grant specified ; and whereas the town of Cohasset hath legally 

 granted to the said Elisha Doane and Isaac Smith, their heirs and 

 assigns forever, all their right and title in and to the said Gulf Stream, 

 on certain conditions in their grant mentioned ; which said conditions, 

 stipulated by said towns, appear to have been complied with on the 

 part of said Doane and Smith ; and whereas the said Doane hath 

 agreed '" that if the flood-gates of the said Doane's mill-dam should 

 not, in the passage of the said fish up the stream, open during the 

 flood-tide, by reason of the water above, the proprietors of said mill 

 shall draw off so much water from the mill-pond as to cause said gates 

 to open on the flood-tide ; and if the proprietors of said mill shall 

 refuse or neglect to draw off said water from said pond suflHcieut for 

 the gates to open as aforesaid, the fish-wardens hereafter mentioned, 

 duly authorized for that purpose, they shall have authority to draw 

 off from said pond so much water as to cause said gates to open as 

 ^foresaid, in such manner as shall be least detrimental to the propri- 

 etors of said mill " : 



Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the passing this act, 

 the selectmen of the towns of Scituate and Cohasset shall be fish- 

 wardens, and shall be sworn as other town officers, and shall be under 

 like penalties in case of refusal ; said wardens shall have authority 

 to regulate the times and places and manner of taking said fish ; and 

 also the prices at which said fish may be sold, not exceeding twenty- 

 five cents for each hundred ; also to farm out or sell for one year, after 

 giving public notice in each of said towns, the privilege of taking said 

 fish, under such regulations as the wardens shall previously establish ; 

 and it shall be the duty of said wardens to cause to be removed all 



