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incurred in the same county, and no fiction of law shall be necessary 

 in the declaration to bring such cause within the jurisdiction of such 

 justice of peace. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That in all prosecutions for taking 

 said fish in the said river contrary to law, none of the laws on that 

 subject need to be recited, but the plaintiff may declare generall}'' 

 against the offender for taking the fish called alewives in Mattapoisett 

 River in Rochester, in the county of Plymouth, within a limited time, 

 contrary to the form and effect of the statute in such case made and 

 provided. — [June 24, 1811. 



An Act for the relief of the Owners of the North Mill-Datn (so called), at the Lower 



Falls in Newton. 



1811, 76. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That a certain act made and 

 passed in the 3'ear of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 

 fort3"-one, entitled " An Act in addition to an Act made to prevent 

 the destruction of the fish called alewives and other fish," so far 

 as the same ma}" regard or impose any duty upon the owners or 

 occupants of the North Mill-Dam, which is erected across Charles 

 River from the town of Newton to the town of Needham, at the 

 lower falls, be and the same is duly repealed. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall not hereafter be the 

 duty of the owner or occupants of the said mill-dam, or any other 

 dam which may be built or erected across Charles River, between the 

 said towns of Newton and Needham at the lower falls aforesaid, in 

 the place where the old dam now stands to make or keep open through 

 anv such dam, any sluice or passage-way through any such dam dur- 

 ing any part of the 3'ear, an}- other law or usage to the contrary not- 

 withstanding. — [June 25, 1811. 



[1809, 57.] 



An Act to repeal an Act entitled " An Act to regulate the Fisheries in the Towns of 

 IpsAvich, Hamilton and Wenham." 



1811, 113. Be it enacted, That an act passed the first day of 

 March, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled " An Act to regulate the 

 fishery in the towns of Ipswich, Hamilton and Wenham," be and the 

 same is hereby repealed. — [February 28, 1811. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272.] 



An Act in further addition to an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Catching of Sal- 

 mon, Shad and Alewives and to prevent Obstructions in Merrimack River, and in 

 the other Rivers and Streams running into the same, within this Commonwealth, and 

 for repealing several Acts heretofore made for that purpose." 



1811,175. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That anj' person who shall lie 

 convicted of catching any shad, salmon or alewives in Merrimack 

 River, or any river or stream centering to or running into the same, 



