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river for the purpose of catching said fish, or sweep or use seines or 

 nets for that purpose, within one luindred rods of the mill-dam lately' 

 erected across said river b}* Samuel Crocker and others, near King's 

 Bridge, so called ; anything in the act entitled " An Act to regulate 

 the fisher}' in Taunton Great River," to which this is an addition, to 

 the contrary notwithstanding. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted. That it shall not be lawful for the 

 said purchaser or purchasers, or an}' other person, to impede, inter- 

 rupt, or turn the course of the fish within the distance of one hundred 

 rods of the mill-dam aforesaid, for the purpose of taking said fish 

 without or beyond that distance. 



Skct. 3. Be it further enacted, That any person dul}' convicted of 

 a breach of the second section of this act, shall forfeit and pay the 

 sum of fift}' dollars for each and every such oflience, to be recovered 

 and appropriated in the manner provided in the fourth section of the 

 act to which this is in addition. — [Januarj- 21, 1823. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 148.] 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of the Fish called Pickerel or Pike in the Ponds in 

 the Towns of Braintree, Canton and Randolph, in the County of Norfolk. 



1822, 54. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the first 

 day of March next, it shall not be lawful for an}' person or persons to 

 take any fish called pickerel or pike in any of the ponds called the 

 Great Pond in the towns of Braintree and Randolph, and the Little 

 Pond in the town of Braintree, and the pond called Ponkapoag in the 

 towns of Canton and Randolph, from the first day of December to 

 the first day of April, in each and every year ; and every person 

 ofl^ending, contrary to the true intention and meaning of this act, 

 upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace in the county 

 of Norfolk, shall pay a fine of fifty cents for each and every pickerel 

 or pike so taken, to and for the use of the person who shall sue for 

 the same, together with all legal costs of prosecution : provided, 

 nevertheless, that either of the towns of Braintree, Canton or Ran- 

 dolph, may, at their annual meetings in the month of March or April, 

 suspend the aforesaid act, so far as respects the ponds in their respec- 

 tive towns, for the term of one year. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That all prosecutions for any viola- 

 tions of the provisions of this act shall be instituted within thirty 

 days from the time of committing the same. — [January 31, 1823. 



[1832, 54 ; 1837, 189 ; 1840, 37.] 



An Act to prevent the Destruction of Fish in the Hoosick River within the Towns of 



Williamstown and Adams. 



1822, 58. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the first 

 day of May next it shall not be lawful to take or catch any fish with 



