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shall be guilty of placing or putting any such net, seine or other fish- 

 ing implement in either of said rivers, within fifteen rods from the 

 meeting of the waters of those rivers as aforesaid, shall forfeit and 

 pay for each and every such offence, the sum of twenty dollars, to 

 be recovered before any justice of the peace for said count}' of 

 Middlesex. And any person who shall be guilty of opposing or 

 hindering the removal of any net, seine or fishing implement which 

 shall be found situated in either of said rivers, contrary to the pro- 

 visions of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twent}' 

 dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as the forfeiture last 

 above mentioned. 



Sect. 6. Be it further eyiacted, That any person or persons who 

 shall at any one time catch or have in his or their possession, within 

 either of said towns of Cambridge, Charlestown, Medford or West 

 Cambridge, any of said fish, after they have cast their spawn, to the 

 number of twenty or upwards, shall forfeit and pay for each and 

 ever}' offence, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than ten 

 dollars. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted, That every net, seine or other fish- 

 ing implement which shall be placed or used in any of the rivers, 

 streams or waters aforesaid, within either of said towns, contrar}' 

 to the provisions of this act, as also all fish that shall be taken con- 

 trar}' to an}' of the provisions of either of said acts, shall all be for- 

 feited to the use of an}- person or persons who shall detect or discover 

 any of such fish to be taken as aforesaid, or any such net, seine, or 

 other such fishing implement to be situated or used as aforesaid ; and 

 all forfeitures or penalties to be incurred for a breach of either of the 

 acts aforesaid, shall be recoverable by any of the inhabitants of either 

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

 bridge, in an action of debt, before any court proper to try the same ; 

 one half the amount thereof to the use of the plaintiff in such action, 

 and the other half thereof to the town where he belongs. — [February 

 14, 1821. 



[1845, UO.] 



[1811, 175; 1814, 137.] 

 An Act to regulate the Passage-Way for Fish through the Canal Mill-Dam, in Billerica, 



and for other Purposes. 



1820, 70. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That so long as there shall 

 be kept and upheld a dam across Concord River, in the town of 

 Billerica, where the mill-dam of the proprietors of the Middlesex Canal 

 now is situated, there shall be kept open at the usual place in said 

 dam, a sluice or passage-way for the fish to pass up and down the 

 river through said dam, from the first day of April to the twentieth 

 day of May in each year ; which sluice or passage-way shall be con- 



