238 LAWS EELATING TO 



ballot a committee, consisting of three discreet persons, who shall 

 cause the regulations adopted by said town to be carried into effect, 

 and who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their dut}'. 



Sect. 2. The selectmen for the time being shall post up the regu- 

 lations so established, in three ur more pulilic places in said town, iii 

 each and every year, within one week after their passage. 



Sect. 3. If any person shall take any of said fish in an}' of the 

 waters aforesaid, at an}- time or in any manner other than shall be 

 allowed bj' said town, he shall, for each offence, on conviction thereof, 

 pay a fine not exceeding five dollars; and if any person shall, in 

 either of the months of March, April, May or June, without permis- 

 sion of the town or fish-committee, set or shoot a seine in the Vine- 

 yard Sound, within forty rods of the mouth of said rivers or streams, 

 for the purpose of taking said fish, he shall, for each offence, on con- 

 viction thereof, pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ; the fines and 

 forfeitures to be recovered in an}" court proper to trj- the same, one 

 half to the use of the town, and the other half to him who shall pros- 

 ecute therefor; and in all such prosecutions any inhabitant of said 

 town not otherwise disqualified shall be a competent witness : provi- 

 ded^ that this act shall in no wise be so construed as to affect the 

 legal rights of any corporation or persons whatever. 



Sect. 4. The acts passed on the second da}- of March in the year 

 one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and on the first day of 

 March in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to 

 prevent the destruction and to regulate the catching of alewives in 

 the rivers and streams of the town of Falmouth in the county of 

 Barnstable, are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 



[March 17, 1847. 



[1855, 279.] 



1848, 



[1819, 98.] 



An Act to repeal "An Act to prevent the Destruction of Fish in the several Ponds in 



the Town of Haverhill." 



1848, 12. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: Sect. 1. An act en- 

 titled " An Act to prevent the destruction of fish in the several ponds 

 in the town of Haverhill," passed on the seventh day of February, in 

 the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, is hereby repealed : 

 provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to release 

 or absolve any person or persons from any liability incurred under or 

 by any provision of the act hereby repealed. 



Sect. 2. This act shall not have the effect to revive any statute 

 law relating to the subject of the act hereby repealed, and which may 

 have been in force prior to the passage of the said repealed act. 



