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allowed to take from said pond, in any way whatsoever, any of the 

 said fish called pickerel, within said year, and shall incur and pay a 

 penalt}- of five dollars for every such offence. 



Sect. 3. Be it farther enacted^ That all penalties incurred by any 

 offence against this act may be sued for and recovered in an action of 

 debt by the treasurer of the said town of Egremont, for the time 

 being, before any justice of the peace in the said county of Berkshire, 

 who does not belong to the said town of Egremont ; and all suras of 

 money so recovered shall be appropriated to the use of said town. 

 And in case any minor or minors shall offend against this act, or any 

 part thereof, and thereby incur any of the penalties aforesaid, the 

 parent, master or guardian of such mtnor or minors shall be answer- 

 able therefor ; in which cases the action shall be commenced against 

 such parent, master or guardian (as the case may be) of such minor 

 or minors respectively, and judgment rendered accordingly in the 

 same manner and degree as for his or their personal offence. — [June 

 19, 1816. 



An Act for regulating the Fishery in the Town of Gloucester. 



Whereas the town of Gloucester, in the county of Essex, have 

 purchased of Zacariah Stevens, Esq., and opened a passage-way 

 through his mill-dam for the fish called alewives, into the Cape Pond, 

 so called, and conveyed into it a number of said fish, at a considerable 

 expense, whereby a great increase has arisen : 



1816,114. Sect. 1. 5e lY ewacfed. That the taking and disposing 

 of the fish called alewives shall be under the care and management of 

 a committee of said town, to consist of five persons, to be chosen at 

 the annual town meeting in March or April, who shall be sworn to 

 the faithful discharge of their dut}^ and shall distribute the fish that 

 may be taken by them, or any person or persons under them, as 

 equalh' as circumstances will admit, to such persons as shall apply 

 for the same ; and for the fish so supplied, the committee aforesaid 

 shall demand a sum not exceeding fifty cents for each hundred of fish 

 so delivered, and account with the treasurer of said town for the 

 proceeds thereof weekl}', and settle their final account on or before 

 the last da}' of September annually' ; and the money arising therefrom 

 shall be paid over to the treasurer of said town and appropriated to 

 the use of the said town ; and the said committee shall have a reason- 

 able allowance for their services, and la}- their accounts before the 

 selectmen of said town for approbation and allowance on or before the 

 last day of November annually. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted^ That the said committee, or either 

 of them, shall have full power and authority to remove from or out of 

 the rivers, brooks or streams leading to the said pond, any obstruc- 



