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observed ; and each person so chosen shall be sworn to discharge 

 faithfully the duties herein requii'ed ; and if any person so chosen 

 shall refuse to serve, he shall forfeit and pay, to and for the use of 

 the poor of the town to which he belongs, the sum of twenty shillings, 

 to be sued for and recovered by the town clerk, and the said town 

 shall immediately proceed to a new choice. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted. That an act made and passed the 

 twent3'-second da}' of February, in the 3'ear of our Lord one thousand 

 seven hundred and ninet}', entitled, " An Act to prevent the destruc- 

 tion of the fish called Alewives, in Taunton Great River, so called, 

 in the county of Bristol, and to regulate the catching said fish therein 

 for the future," be and it is hereby' repealed (excepting the repealing 

 clause thereof) : provided, that all acts and things done and per- 

 formed alread}', by virtue of said act, are hereby and shall be con- 

 sidered good and valid as though this present law had never been 

 made ; and all sales of privilege and ascertaining of places for catch- 

 ing alewives and other fish for the present year, shall be considered 

 good and valid as though done under and by virtue of this present 

 act. 



Sect. 6. Be it further enacted. That the purchasers of the privi- 

 leges aforesaid shall sell said fish to any person or persons who shall 

 apply therefor, when they have an}- on hand, at the rate of two shil- 

 lings per hundred, for the first three weeks after fish begin to run; 

 and at the rate of one shilling and sixpence per hundred afterwards, 

 and no more, upon the penalty of forfeiting twenty shillings for every 

 hundred of said fish they shall sell over and above said prices ; to be 

 recovered b}' action of debt in any court proper to try the same : 

 provided, this act shall not operate so as to establish any price at 

 which said fish shall be sold b}' the purchasers of the privileges in 

 said towns the present year. — [March 19, 1793. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 381; 1815, 119; 1819, 133; 1822, 38; 1829,55; 1832,44; 1832, Res. 

 120; 1843, 120; 1844, 62; 1855, 401; 1855, Res. 22; 1863, 73; 1866, 54; 1871, 258; 

 1875, 71 ; 1876, 208 ; 1879, 83.] 



An Act perniittincc the Inhabitants of that part of the Town of Wareham which was 

 formerly part of Rochester, to take Alewives with Seines or Drag-nets, at a place called 

 the Narrows, in Wareham River, on a certain Day in each Week. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 441. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That an^' in- 

 habitant of that part of the town of Wareham which was formerh' 

 part of Rochester, be and they are hereby allowed and permitted to 

 take for their own use, with one seine or drag-net onl}', the fish called 

 alewives, at a place called the Narrows, in Wareham River, on the 

 west side thereof, and to the northward of Nathan Bassett's now 

 dwelling-house, one-half day in each week, from sunrising until 



