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in March or April annually, suspend in whole or in part the provis- 

 ions and restrictions of the act aforesaid, for any term of time not 

 exceeding one year. — [February 16, 1824. 



An Act to authorize Thomas Manning to erect a Dam across Ipswich River. 

 1823,136. Sect. 1. * * * provided, Jiowever, the s?iid Thomas 

 Manning, his heirs and assigns shall make and keep open through said 

 dam a passage-way for the jBsh to pass up said river or stream, of the 

 dimensions, and constructed in the same manner and subject to the 

 same rules and penalties as is provided by an act passed March 

 twenty-eighth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and the 

 acts in addition thereto, to prevent the destruction of alewives and 

 other fish in said Ipswich River. — [February 21, 1824. 



1824. 



An Act to preserve the Eel Fishery and to prevent the wilful destruction of Oysters and 

 all other shell fish in the town of Harwich. 



1824, 66. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the date 

 of this act, no fisherman or any other person shall take from the 

 waters within the town of Harwich, any eels without a permit from 

 the selectmen of said town, under a penalty of three dollars for each 

 bushel of fish so taken. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That to prevent the destruction of 

 oysters and all other shell fish within the waters belonging to the said 

 town of Harwich, that all the provisions, fines, forfeitures, penalties, 

 seizures and appropriations, prescribed and contained in an act passed 

 in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninet3'-six, entitled? 

 " An Act to prevent the destruction of oysters and other shell fish in 

 this Commonwealth," and also the several acts in addition thereto, so 

 far as they may be applicable to the purposes of this act, be, and they 

 are hereby extended to the said town of Harwich. — [February 12, 

 1825. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 313; 1815, 111.] 



An Act regulating the taking of Fish in the Town of Bridgewater, in the County of 



Plymouth. 



1824, 76. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the first 

 day of June next, it shall be lawful for the town of Bridgewater to 

 catch the fish called shad and alewives in Titicut River, so called, 

 which forms the boundary line between the said town of Bridgewater 

 and the townof Middleborough, with a seine or net, and for that pur- 

 pose they may sell at public auction for their own l)enefit, the privi- 

 lege of catching said fish in said river, with one seine or net only, 

 fifteen rods in length, four days in each week, between the fifteenth 

 day of March and the first day of June in each year, to commence 



