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olistriicting the passage of fish up the said river into Rehoboth ; and if 

 an}' person or persons shall, within the time aforesaid, set anj- seine, 

 net, weare or other obstruction across said river for the purpose afore- 

 said, he or they shall forfeit and pay a fine of seven dollars for each 

 and every such offence, to be recovered b}' action of debt, one half to 

 the use of him or them who shall prosecute therefor, and the other 

 half to the use of the town in which the offence shall be committed ; 

 and such seine or net so set across said river shall also be forfeited 

 to the use of hiui or them who shall prosecute for the same. — [Feb- 

 ruary 9, 1821. 



[1836, 130.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 238, 512.] ' 



Ax Act for the regulation of the Shad and Alewife Fishery in Cambridge, Charlestown, 



Medford and West Cambridge. 



1820, 67. Sect. 1. Be it enacted^ That the act passed on the 

 sixteenth day of Februaiy, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

 seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to prevent the 

 destruction of the fish called shad and alewives in Mystic River, so 

 called, within the towns of Cambridge, Charlestown and Medford, 

 and for repealing all laws heretofore made for that purpose," shall 

 be taken and construed to extend to the town of West Cambridoe in 

 the county of Middlesex, as full}', to all intents and purposes, as if 

 the town of West Cambridge had been originally named in said act ; 

 and it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the said town of West 

 Cambridge to catch and take any of the said fish within the limits of. 

 said town, on all such days and times as by the provisions of the 

 act aforesaid it is made lawful for the inhabitants of the said town of 

 Cambridge to catch them, and on no other days or times. 



Skct. 2. Be it farther enacted, That an}' member of the several 

 committees for the preservation of fish, annually to be chosen in each 

 of said towns of Cambridge, Charlestown, Medford and West Cam- 

 bridge, shall have full power and authority to do any act or thing 

 in any or either of the said towns which heretofore might have been 

 lawfully done b}^ a majority of either of said committees within the 

 town where such committee was chosen, and shall be entitled to and 

 enjoy all the privileges and protection, when in the exercise or dis- 

 charge of their duties in either of said towns, which a majority of 

 either or any of the said committees were heretofore entitled to and 

 enjoyed, when acting in discharge of their said duties within the limits 

 of the particular town for which such committee was chosen. And any 

 person who shall disturb or hinder any or either of said committee-men 

 in the execution of the duties of their said office, shall forfeit and pay 

 for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than 

 ten dollars ; and each and every pecuniary penalty to be forfeited and 



