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ber, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace in 

 and for said county, or any other court proper to try the same, by the 

 town treasurer of said town. And no person shall be disqualified 

 from being a witness in any such suit, by reason of his or her being 

 an inhabitant of said town. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That so much of an act passed on 

 the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

 seven hundred and ninety-three, as regulates the price of said fish 

 taken in said river, be and the same is hereby repealed. — [Feb. 23, 

 1797. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 191.] 

 An Act in addition to and for repealing a certain clause in an Act passed March the 

 twenty-eighth, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, 

 entitled " An Act to prevent the Destruction of Alewives and other Fish in Ipswich 

 River, and to encourage the increase of the same." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 128. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the future 

 using and improving of Andrews' saw-mill, standing on Ipswich River, 

 at Farley's mill-dam, so called, within the town of Ipswich, from the 

 last day of April to the first day of June annually, shall be under the 

 directions, regulations and restrictions of the major part of the select- 

 men of the towns of Ipswich, Topsfield, Middleton and Reading, for 

 the time being ; such directions, regulations and restrictions being 

 made in writing, under the hands of the major part of the selectmen 

 aforesaid, and delivered to the said Andrews from time to time, as 

 shall be found necessary. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That for every omission or viola- 

 tion of such direction, regulations or restrictions as aforesaid, the said 

 Andrews shall be subject to such penalties and forfeitures as are in- 

 curred by the aforementioned act, for using and improving said mill 

 within the term aforesaid ; to be sued for, recovered and applied in 

 manner as is prescribed in the said act. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sixth clause of the afore- 

 mentioned act, so far as it respects the using and improving the said 

 Andrews' saw-mill within the term therein mentioned, shall be and 

 hereby is repealed. — [March 7, 1797. 



An Act for regulating the taking of Shad, Alewives and other Fish in Neponset River, 

 and the several Streams from the Pond called Puncapog and Massopog. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 148. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That there shall 

 be sluice-ways through Leeds' dam and McLane's dam, on Neponset 

 River, each eight feet in width, and in depth within eighteen inches of 

 the mud-sill ; the former within fifteen feet of Leeds' grist-mill floom, 

 and the latter where the sluice-way now is. And the owners of all 



