INLAND FISHERIES. Ul 



feitcd and the same may be seized and prosecuted for in manner 

 aforesaid. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 

 proprietors of the Middlesex Canal to cause to be erected and kept 

 in repair in said canal, on both sides of said Concord River, such 

 gates, constructed of wire or other materials, as may be sufficient to 

 prevent the passage of the fish or young fry through said canal, either 

 toward Merrimack River or toward Medford ; and shall not allow the 

 said gates or either of them to be kept open, excepting at the time of 

 passing any boat or raft, in either direction in said canal ; and no 

 longer at an}' time, than may be sufficient for the passing of such boat 

 or raft through the said gates ; and for failure or neglect of the duty 

 herein enjoined, they shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, to be recovered 

 and appropriated as aforesaid. 



Sect. 8: Be it further enacted, That the act entitled " An Act 



further regulating the fishery in Merrimack River," passed on the 



fourteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventeen, be and the 



same is herel)y repealed : provided, however, that the said act shall be 



in full force as to the prosecutions commenced under the said act. — 



[.June 18, 1819. 



[1820, 22, 70 ; 1832, 56 ; 1866, 238.] 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of Fish in the several Ponds in the Town of Haverhill. 



1819, 98. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, no person shall take, catch or kill any pickerel or 

 other fish in the several ponds in the town of Haverhill, in the county 

 of Essex, with any instrument whatever, at any time between the 

 first day of December in each year, and the first day of May following, 

 and no person shall catch, kill or destroy any pickerel or perch in said 

 ponds, or in the several brooks running into or out of the same, with 

 any spear, grapple, seine, net or pot, at any time after the passing of 

 this act. And every person so offending against the provisions of 

 this act, shall for each and every oifeuce, forfeit and pay the sum of 

 two dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit in an action of debt, 

 by any person or persons who shall sue for the same, to his or their 

 use, before any justice of the peace within and for the county of Essex. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That the inhabitants of Haverhill, 

 aforesaid, may, at their annual meeting in March or April, in any 

 year, by vote, suspend the operation of the prohibitions and restric- 

 tions contained in the first section of this act, or any part of the same, 

 for any term of time not exceeding one 3'ear, as to them shall seem 

 expedient. — [February 7, 1820. 



[1848, 12.] 



