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fetch, on the days following, viz. : at the wear by the town mills, so 

 called, on Monday and Tuesday of each week ; at the Great River 

 mills, so called, on Wednesdays and Thursdays in each week ; and at 

 the wear by Whitman's mills, so called, on Mondays, Tuesdays and 

 Wednesdays in each week ; and the emoluments arising from said 

 privilege shall be appropriated by said town to such purposes and 

 uses as the inhabitants thereof shall, in legal town meeting, from time 

 time determine. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That if the purchaser or purchasers, 

 manager or managers, or those employed by them, shall presume to 

 take any of the said fish at any other time or place in said town than 

 is in this act provided, and if any other person or persons whatever, 

 except the purchaser or purchasers, manager or managers of said 

 privilege, or those employed by them, shall presume to take or catch 

 an\' of said fish, in an}' of the rivers or streams within the boundaries 

 of said town, he or they so offending shall for each offence forfeit and 

 pay a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars nor less than one dollar, at 

 the discretion of the justice before whom the same shall be tried. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That if the said purchaser or pur- 

 chasers, manager or managers of said privilege, shall, when in his 

 or their power, neglect or refuse to supply any person or persons with 

 said fish, who mav apply therefor, at the rate of twenty-five cents for 

 a hundred of said fish, he or they so otiending shall, for each offence, 

 forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars ; and if any person or persons 

 shall ask, demand and receive more than twent^'-flve cents for a hun- 

 dred of said fish, and so in that proportion for a greater or less num- 

 ber, he or they so offending shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay the 

 sum of five dollars. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said town of Bridgewater 

 shall, at their annual meeting in March or April, choose a committee 

 not exceding nine nor less than three freeholders of said town, who 

 shall' be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties enjoined upon 

 them by this act ; and it shall be the duty of said committee to cause 

 the natural course of the rivers, passage-ways or streams through 

 which the said fish pass, to be kept open and without obstruction dur- 

 ing the whole time the said fish pass up in said rivers, passage-ways 

 and streams in each year, and to remove an}' such as shall be found 

 therein, and to make the said passage-ways wider or deeper, if they 

 or the major part of them shall judge it necessary ; and the said com- 

 mittee, or any two of them, paying a reasonable compensation therefor, 

 if demanded, shall have authority (in discharging the duties enjoined 

 upon them by this act) to go on the lands or meadows of any person 

 through which such rivers, passage-ways or streams run, or into any 



