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this Commonwealth, from the twenty-fifth day of June to the first day 

 of December, annually ; and if any persOn or persons shall catch any 

 salmon or shad in said river, or shall drag any seine or net for the 

 purpose of catching any of the said fish in said river, within this Com- 

 monwealth, between the said twenty-fifth da}' of June and the said 

 first day of December, annually, each and every person so offending 

 shall forfeit and pay for each oflTence a fine of ten dollars. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That if an}' person or persons, at 

 any time, in the river aforesaid, within this Commonwealth, shall fish 

 with a seine or net exceeding forty-five rods in length, or extend more 

 than one seine or net on the same fishing-ground at one and the same 

 time, he or they shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay a fine of twenty 

 dollars. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted^ That all the fines and forfeitures 

 incurred b}' a breach of this act, shall be recovered in an action of debt 

 before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the county where the 

 offence is committed, and all such fines and forfeitures so recovered, 

 shall enure to the benefit of him or them who shall prosecute for the 

 same. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That no action founded on this act 

 shall be sustained, unless the same be commenced within one 3'ear 

 from the time in which the offence complained of may be committed. 



Sect, 5. Be it further enacted, That all seines, nets, boats or other 

 fishing implements, which shall be used in violation of an}- provision 

 of this act, shall be liable to attachment, and held to respond such 

 damages and costs as may be recovered in any action prosecuted 

 under this act. — [February 26, 1813. 



[1835, 137.] 



[1805, 76.] 



An" Act in further addition to an act entitled " An Act to prevent and remove Obstruc- 

 tions to the passage of Shad, Alewives and other Fish in Parker River and the 

 Falls River, so called, in the County of Essex, and tlie Streams and Brooks running 

 into the said Falls River." 



1812, 106. Be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this 

 act, the sluice-wa3's at each and every dam made for the passage of fish 

 on the Falls River, so called, in the county of Essex, shall, at all times, 

 from the fifteenth day of April to the first day of June, annually, be 

 such that the perpendicular section of the water running in each of the 

 said sluice-ways shall be equal to one hundred and forty-four square 

 inches, and the said sluice-ways shall l)e made in such form, at such 

 places, and with such convenient passages thereto, in and at the sev- 

 eral dams aforesaid, as Dennison Wallace and Nathan Felton, 

 Esquires, of Danvers, in the county of Essex, shall direct. And the 

 mill-holders are hereby oliliged to make, at their own expense, the 



