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any member thereof, or to the person emplo3'ed In' said committee to 

 superintend, regulate and manage the taking of said fish at tlie place, 

 or an}' of the places for taking the same, hare the right to purchase 

 four liundred fresh alewives for his own consumption, of those which 

 shall be taken each year under authority of said committee, at the 

 price of twenty-five cents per hundred, before said alewives shall be 

 cured or otherwise disposed of: provided, the person so applying shall 

 be ready seasonably to pa}' for and remove such quantity, and in case 

 an}' such inhabitants so applying, and being so ready to pay for and 

 remove said quantity of fresh fish, shall not be supplied therewith, as 

 far as the quantity taken under authority of said committee shall 

 suffice for the purpose, said company shall forfeit to hira the sum of 

 five dollars, to be sued for and recovered by him in his own name, in 

 an action of debt or on the case, or other proper action of proceeding 

 against said corporation or against said committee, or any member 

 thereof, in any court proper to try the same. 



Sfxt. 4. The agreement heretofore entered into between the pro- 

 prietors of the falls and water privileges on Alewive River, otherwise 

 called Back River, and the town of Weymouth, as recited in the pre- 

 amble of the special act of 1825, chapter forty-eight, entitled " An 

 Act in addition to an act for the regulating and disposing of the fish 

 called alewives within the limits of the town of Weymouth, and for 

 the more effectually securing to said town the advantages thereof," 

 shall still be and remain in force, as also said additional act, the fore- 

 going provisions of this act notwithstanding, excepting that in respect 

 to the provisions of said additional act, the said Weymouth Iron Com- 

 pany shall be substituted in the place of the town of Weymouth, as a 

 party to the terms of said agreement and the provisions of said addi- 

 tional act ; and any committee appointed by said company, from time 

 to time, in pursuance of the provisions of the first section of this act, 

 shall be substituted in the place of, and have the rights, powers and 

 duties of, and be subject to the provisions of said additional act, re- 

 lating to the fish-committee of said town. 



Sect. 5. The purchase money for said privilege, paid to said town 

 of Weymouth in pursuance of this act, shall be kept as a fund, to be 

 managed and invested by the treasurer of said town of Weymouth, or 

 by any person or committee appointed or authorized by said town for 

 the purpose ; and the same shall be loaned only on security of real 

 estate, except to said town ; and the annual interest and income of 

 said fund shall be annually expended for the support of schools in 

 said town, to be divided in the same manner as other moneys raised 

 for the support of schools. 



Sect. 6. This act shall go into effect, on said town of Weymouth 

 causing to be conveyed to said company the fish house for said fishery, 



