INLAND FISHERIES. 169 



Berkle}' and Wellington shall not have a right to sweep with a seine 

 or net more than twenty' rods in length, and but four days in each 

 week, beginning at four o'clock on Morfda3' morning and ending at 

 four o'clock on P'riday morning ; the purchaser or purchasers of the 

 privilege or privileges which shall be located in the town of Dighton 

 shall haA^e a right to sweep with a seine or net, thirty rods in length 

 and no more, five days in each week, beginning at four o'clock on 

 Monday morning and ending at four o'clock on Saturday morning ; 

 and the purchaser or purchasers of the privilege or privileges which 

 shall be located in either of the towns of Somerset, Freetown or Troy 

 shall have a right to sweep with a seine or net, forty rods in length 

 and no more, five da3's in each week, beginning at: four o'clock on 

 Monda}' morning and ending at four o'clock on Saturda}' morning ; 

 and }^rovided, also, that each of the said towns shall, at a legal meet- 

 ing between the first day of September and the last day of December 

 in each year, dispose and make sale of, at public auction, for the next 

 year, and so from year to year, their privilege or privileges of catch- 

 ing shad and alewives with seines or nets in the river aforesaid for 

 the time aforesaid, to such person or persons as shall offer the most 

 for the same and give sufficient security for the payment of the pur- 

 chase money, at such time and in such manner as the respective towns 

 shall order. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the several purchasers of the 

 respective privileges aforesaid, shall select the place where they in- 

 tend to use their seine or net for the purpose of catching shad and 

 alewives, and shall file a certificate thereof with the clerk of the town 

 within which the}' have determined to exercise their said privilege as 

 aforesaid, on or before the first da}- of March in each year : provided, 

 that the privilege which shall be purchased of the said town of Som- 

 erset shall be exercised within the limits of said town ; and the person 

 or persons so purchasing and locating the privileges aforesaid, shall 

 have the right to catch shad and alewives in the river aforesaid, for 

 the time aforesaid, and no other person. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That no purchaser of a privilege, as 

 aforesaid, shall make use of a seine or net for the purpose aforesaid, 

 at any other place in said river than the place so selected and certified 

 as fiforesaid, during the time aforesaid ; and no two seines shall be 

 located or swei)t within half a mile of Robinson's bridge, so called, in 

 Raj'nham ; and no seine or net shall be swept more than forty rods 

 on the bank of said river ; and no two seines shall be allowed to be 

 swept within the same limits, on the same side of said river ; and no 

 person whatever shall be permitted to set any seine, net, weare or 

 other obstruction, in or across said river or any part thereof, or any 

 waters connected with said river (Broad Cove, so called, in Somerset, 



