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now belonging lo said town ; and any committee, and any member or 

 members of said committee, that shall be appointed from time to time 

 by said company, or by the directors thereof, to regulate, superintend, 

 or have charge of, or the care and management of the taking and dis- 

 posing of said fish, shall dispose of the same for the benefit of said 

 compan}', and account with the said company for the proceeds thereof; 

 and such committee, or either of them, shall have power and authority 

 to remove from or out of Back River, in said town, and the brooks 

 and streams leading to Great Pond and Whitman's Pond, in said 

 town, an3- obstructions that may be made to the free passage of said 

 fish into said ponds or repassing from them into the sea ; and said 

 committee going, or either of them, into the land of any person or per- 

 sons for this purpose, shall not be deemed or held as a trespass ; and 

 the said committee, or a major part of them (if more than one) shall 

 determine the particular place or places whei-e the said fish shall be 

 taken, and give public notice thereof by posting up one or more 

 notifications in some conspicuous place or places in said town, on 

 or before the first day of Ma}' annually. 



Sect. 2. No person shall catch or take any of said fish in any of 

 the rivers, brooks or streams, canals or water channels leading to or 

 from the said ponds, without the direction or leave of said committee, 

 or a major part of them ; and whosoever shall take, catch or haul on 

 shore any of said fish with a seine, scoop-net or drag-net, in either of 

 the ponds aforementioned, or in We3mouth Back River, or in the 

 river, brooks, streams, canals or channels through which the said fish 

 pass into said ponds, or shall, with an}' S( ine, scoop-net or drag-net, 

 or in any other way obstruct the passage of said fish to or from said 

 ponds, or either of them, or shall obstruct said committee, or either 

 of them, in the execution of their duty, shall for each such offence for- 

 feit and pay not exceeding thirteen dollars nor less than ten dollars ; 

 and in case the offence be committed in the night a sum not exceeding 

 thirty dollars nor less than twenty dollars, to be prosecuted or sued 

 for, and recovei-ed, in any court proper to try the same, in an acti' n 

 on the case, or other proper form of action, in the name of said Wey- 

 mouth Iron Company, or the name or names of such committee, for 

 the benefit of said company, saving when any person shall give in- 

 formation of any breach of this act, he shall, upon conviction of the 

 offender, be entitled to one-third part of the forfeiture recovered ; and 

 no person shall be considered as disqualified from being a witness on 

 any trial that may be had pursuant to this act, on account of his 

 being an inhabitant of said town, or of his being a member of said 

 committee. 



Sect. 3. Each householder in said town of Weymouth shall, on his 

 making seasonable application for that purpose to said committee, or 



