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time liiuited therefor, according to the meaning of this act, siicli town 

 shall forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, for the use of him 

 or them who shall prosecute for the same. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted^ That all the laws heretofore made 

 for the regulation of the fishery in Taunton Great River (except so 

 far as respects the town of Middleborough) , be and the same are 

 hereby repealed : provided, however, that any prosecutions which have 

 been or may be commenced for the recover}' of any forfeitures incurred 

 b}' virtue of the laws hereby repealed, ma}^ be prosecuted to final 

 judgment and execution, in the same manner as if this act had not 

 been passed ; and provided, also, that all contracts made prior to the 

 passing of this act, by any of the towns aforesaid, respecting the fish- 

 er}'^ aforesaid, by virtue and in pursuance of the laws hereby repealed, 

 shall be valid to all intents and purposes ; this act to the contrary 

 notwithstanding ; and provided, further, that the inhabitants of the 

 respective towns aforesaid, who have not already disposed of their 

 privileges as aforesaid, for the present year, by virtue and in pursu- 

 ance of the laws hereby repealed, shall and may dispose of the same 

 at any time before the first day of March next. — [February 21, 1820. 



[1822, 38.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 313.] 

 An Act regulating the Taking of Fish called Alewives in the Town of Middleborough. 



1819, 137. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the passing 

 of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the inhabitants of the town 

 of Middleborough, in the county of Plymouth, to take the^fish called 

 alewives at the Old Stone Wear, so called, in sard town, on Wednes- 

 day, Thursdaj", Friday and Saturday of each week during the time 

 said fish are allowed to pass the aforesaid place, and at no other time 

 at the place aforesaid ; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. — 



[February 21, 1820. 



[1837, 193.] 



1820. 



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



An Act to suspend the operation of the Seventh Section of an Act entitled "An Act fur- 

 ther regulating the Fishery in the Merrimack River and the Streams running into the 

 same," 



1820, 22. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That the seventh section of an 

 act entitled "An Act further regulating the fishery in Merrimack River, 

 and the streams ruqning into the same," passed on the eighteenth 

 da}' of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 

 nineteen, be and the same is hereby suspended in its operation, until 

 the first day of April next. — [June 17, 1820. 



