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



An Act in addition to an Act entitled " An Act to prevent the destruction of Alewives 



and other Fish in Ipswich River, and to encourage the increase of the same." 



1810, 117. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for 

 the inhabitants of the towns of Ipswich, Hamilton, Topsfield, Read- 

 ing, Danvers and Middle ton, to take fish with seines or drag-nets in 

 Ipswich River, one day in each week, which day shall be Wednesday, 

 at snch place in each town as the fish committees in said town shall 

 respectivel}' direct, and under such regulations and restrictions as the 

 towns aforesaid shall adopt, anything in the act entitled "' An Act to 

 prevent the destruction of alewives and other fish in Ipswich River, 

 and to encourage the increase of the same," to the contrary notwith- 

 standing. — [February 28, 1811. 



1811. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 290.] 

 An Act further regulating the Taking of Fish in Mattapoisett River. 



1811, 60. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That if any person or persons 

 shall take any fish called alewives in Mattapoisett River, in the town 

 of Rochester, in the county of Plymouth, or stretch any seine in 

 said river for the purpose of taking fish at any time hereafter in either 

 of the mouths of March, April or May in any part of Mattapoisett Har- 

 bor in said Rochester, to the northward of a line running directly 

 from the most southerl}' part of Capt. Job Haskell's farm on the 

 westerly side of said harbor, to the most southerly part of Joseph 

 Edwards' land on the easterly side of said harbor, such person or 

 persons so ofi'ending shall for each offence forfeit and pay fift}' dol- 

 lars, to be recovered in the same way, and to the same uses as for- 

 feitures for taking said fish in the same river are by law to be recovered. 



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

 are hereby authorized annually to regulate the manner in which the 

 purchasers of the exclusive right of taking said fish in said river 

 shall respectively take them, and if any such purchaser shall not con- 

 form to such regulations, such purchaser shall for ever}' such offence 

 forfeit fourteen dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid, for the use or 

 uses aforesaid. 



Sect. 3. Be it farther enacted, That if any person not an inhab- 

 itant of the said county of Plymouth, shall take any of said fish in 

 said river contrar}' to law, he shall be holden to answer for the same 

 before any justice of the peace within and for the county of which 

 such person is an inhabitant, or in which he is resident ; and all such 

 justices have hereby given them respectively ample jurisdiction of all 

 such actions which may be brought before them, and full}' authorized 

 to hear and try them in the same manner as if the forfeiture had been 



