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ofl'ence shall be committed, allowing an appeal to the court of common 

 pleas of the same county ; and all sums of money recovered to either 

 of the said towns as forfeited by this act, shall be for the support of 

 the poor of the said towns respectively ; and no person by reason of 

 his being one of either of the said committees respectively, or an 

 inhabitant of either of the said towns, shall be thereby disqualified 

 from being a witness in an}' prosecutions for a breach of this act. 



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

 regulating the fishery in the said towns of Lynn, Lynnfield and Read- 

 ing, with joirat or separate authority, are hereb}' repealed. — [March 



3, 1802. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 198 ; 1823, 97 ; 1852, 48.] ' 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p, 313.] 



An Act for the preservation and regulating the taking of Fish called Alewives, in 

 the Brook running from the West Quitticus Pond to the East Quitticus Pond, near 

 the line between the Towns of Middleborough and Rochester, in the Countj' of 

 Plymouth. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 516. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the said towns 

 of Middleborough and Rochester shall annuall}^ at a regitlar town meet- 

 ing, respectively choose an agent, whose duty it shall be annually to 

 sell at public auction the privilege of taking said fish at said brook, on 

 Tuesdays, Wednesda3's and Thursdays in each week, and publish 

 their conditions of sale, wherein said agents shall express the price at 

 which the purchasers shall sell said fish, which shall be at the rate of 

 twenty-five cents per hundred, and also the manner of taking and dis- 

 posing of the same. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the agent of the said town of 

 Middleborough the first year, and the agent of the said town of 

 Rochester the second year, and so on alternately forever, shall notify 

 the town clerk of the other town concerned in said fishery, of the time 

 and place in which said agents shall meet, ten daj's at least l)efore the 

 time of meeting. 



Sect. d. Be it further enacted. That if either of said towns shall 

 neglect to choose their respective agents as aforesaid, or if either of 

 such agents shall neglect to give notice to the other, as above re- 

 quired, such delinquent town or agent shall forfeit and pa}', to the 

 use of the town which shall choose such agent, for each otfence the 

 sum of thirty dollars. 



Sect. 4. Be it farther enacted. That all persons who shall take any 

 of said fish in said brook, and be thereof convicted before any court 

 proper to try the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than two 

 nor more than ten dollars ; except the purchaser or purchasers as 

 aforesaid, or those employed by them, who shall have liberty to take 

 said fish on said days. 



