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and the land under the same, and adjoining thereto, belonging to said 

 town, and the said company paying to the selectmen of said town, 

 or either of them, a sum of money, the annual interest of which, at six 

 per cent, per annum, is or shall be a«isented and agreed to by said 

 selectmen as sufficient to yield an annual interest equal to the net an- 

 nual income of said fishery for the last thirty years. — [March 11, 184(5. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272 ; vol. 3, p. 43.] 

 An Act to repeal the Laws regulating the Fishery in Merrimack River. 



1846, 192. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. From and 

 after the passing of this act, the several laws regulating the fisheries 

 in Merrimack River, are hereb}' repealed, except so much of said laws 

 as relate to any sluice or passage-way, dams or other obstruction to 

 the free passage of fish up and down said river, and said ai)peal shall 

 in no wise affect any legal rights that may have accrued under said 

 laws. — [April 7, 1846. 



1847. 



[1824,94; 1829,84.] 



An Act to regulate the Herring or Alewive Fishery in Chappaquonset Pond and Creek 



in the Town of Tisbury. 



1847, 40. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The inhabi- 

 tants of Tisbury in the county of Dukes Count}', at their annual 

 meeting in the month of March or April, shall choose one or more 

 discreet persons as a fish-committee, who shall be sworn to the faith- 

 ful performance of their duty, and whose duty it shall be to regulate 

 the herring or alewive fishery in Chappaquonset Pond and Creek in^ 

 said town ; to prescribe the time, manner, place or places where said 

 fish ma}- be taken by the inhabitants of said town ; also to remove any 

 obstruction that may be in said creek, and to keep the stream open 

 for the passage of said fish from the Vinej-ard Sound or Sea, into 

 Chappaquonset Pond, so that the inhabitants of said town may enjoy 

 a free fishery. 



Sect. 2. The fish committee for the time being, shall post up, at 

 three or more public places in said town, on or before the tenth day 

 of March in each year, the regulations established b}' said committee 

 respecting the fishery in Chappaquonset Pond and Creek. 



Sect. 3. Any person who shall oppose or obstruct said committee 

 in the perf >rmance of their duty, or shall obstruct said fish in their 

 passage, or take or destroy any of said fish at any time or place, 

 except at such time or place as said committee shall direct, on con- 

 viction before any justice of the peace in the county of Dukes County 

 not an inhabitant of the town of Tisbury, shall forfeit and pay a fine 

 for each oflTence, not exceeding twenty dollars, one half to the use of 



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