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as appl}^ for the same ; and for the fish so supplied, the committee 

 aforesaid, or their agent or agents, shall demand a sum not exceeding 

 twenty-five cents for each hundred of said fish so delivered, excepting 

 of certain poor persons of said town of Haverhill, who in the opinion 

 of the selectmen of said town, are unable to pa\' for the same, and 

 such persons shall be supplied, gratis, with such quantities, as the 

 said committee sliall judge expedient. And the said committee shall 

 on the first town-meeting after the month of May annually, exhibit an 

 account of all the fish disposed of by them, and the balance, if any 

 remains, after paying them a reasonable compensation for their ser- 

 vices, shall be paid into the treasury of said town, for the benefit 

 thereof. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That the committee so chosen 

 shall, before the^' enter upon the duties of their office, be sworn faith- 

 fully to discharge the duties required of them by said town, agreeable 

 to this act. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted, That any of the inhabitants of said 

 town of Haverhill, not concerned in violating this act, may be admit- 

 ted as witnesses in any action that may be brought for any penalties 

 aforesaid, they being inhabitants of said town notwithstanding. 



Sect, 7. Be it further enacted, That no person or persons shall, 

 after passing this act, be allowed to catch salmon, shad or alewives, 

 or drag any seine, or set any net, pot or other machine, for the pur- 

 pose of taking or catching said fish, or any otherwise obstruct said 

 fish in their passage within thirty rods below, or twenty rods above 

 the mouth of any streams in the town of Haverhill, emptying into 

 Merrimack River, where said fish usually pass up, on penalty of 

 thirteen dollars, to be recovered before any court proper to try the 

 same ; and the seine, net. pot or other machine, so used to be forfeited. 



Sect. 8. Be it further enacted. That the times and manner pre- 

 scribed for taking said fish in an act passed March 4th, 1790, entitled 

 " An Act to regulate the catching of salmon, shad and alewives, and 

 to prevent obstructions in Merrimack River, and in the other rivers 

 and streams running into the same, within this Commonwealth ; and 

 for repealing several acts heretofore made for that purpose," shall be 

 observed as the times and manner for taking said fish in the said 

 streams in the town of Haverhill ; and if any person shall take any of 

 said fish at any other time or in any other manner than is prescribed 

 in the act last recited, he shall, for each offence, be subject to such 

 penalty as is provided in the said act for the same offence, to be ap- 

 propriated in the same manner as the other forfeitures in this act. 



Sect. 9. Be it further enacted, That if any person is found at- 

 tempting to take any of said fish at any time or place, otherwise than 

 is provided by this act, or if any of said fish shall be found in the 



