132 LAWS DELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 269.] 



An Act supplementary to " An Act regulating the Taking and Disposing of the Fish 

 called Alewives in the Town of Pembroke." 



1811, 72. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That no person or persons shall 

 set, draw or cast any seine, drag or set-net, of an}' dimensions what- 

 ever, in the North River, so called, in the county of Plymouth, except 

 from the sun's rising on Friday morning to the sun's rising on the 

 following morning in each week ; and that no seine, drag or set-net 

 shall be set, drawn or cast in said river above what is called and 

 known by the name of the Third Herring Brook, or Smelt Brook, 

 excepting as is excepted in the tenth section of the act to which this 

 is a supplement, on the penalty of sixteen dollars for each offence, to 

 be recovered and appropriated in the manner provided for the recover^' 

 and appropriation of fines and forfeitures by the act to which this is a 

 supplement. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the ninth section of the act to 

 which this is a supplement, be and it hereby is repealed. — [June, 

 25, 1811. 



1812. 



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



An Act in further addition to and amendment of an Act entitled " An Act in addition to 

 an Act passed the fourth daj^ of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, 

 entitled ' An Act to regulate the Catching of Salmon, Shad and Alewives, and to pre- 

 vent Obstructions in Merrimac River, and in the other Streams running into the same, 

 within this Commonwealth.' " 



1812, 84. Be it enacted, That the act aforesaid to which this is in 

 addition, passed the twenty-seventh day of March, seventeen hundred 

 and ninet^'-three, which prohibits the taking of an}' fish " within fifty 

 rods below or twenty rods above the mouth of any river or stream in 

 the town of Andover emptying into Merrimac River," be so amended 

 as that any person or persons may hereafter, with the consent of the 

 proprietors of the soil, or having otherwise the right of fishing thereon, 

 draw any seine for the purpose of catching shad and salmon in Merri- 

 mac River at any place between fifty and twenty-five rods below the 

 mouth of Shausheen River, and between twenty and ten rods above 

 the mouth of Cocheco Brook, in the town of Andover ; anything in the 

 act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding. — [February 16, 1813. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 296.] 



An Act to regulate the taking of Fish in Connecticut River. 



1812, 103. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That no person or persons 



whatever be allowed, from and after the passing of this act, to catch 



any salmon or shad, or draw any seine for the purpose of catching any 



salmon or shad, in that part of Connecticut River which passes through 



