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time more than one mill on the said stream, the owners thereof shall 

 be held to make and keep open during the term aforesaid, a passage- 

 way by each mill, and the committee shall have power to determine 

 the sufficiency of such passage-way, and also to regulate the time of 

 grinding for each mill, so that the time allowed to all the mills may 

 be equal to thirty days' grinding of one mill from the fifteenth day of 

 April to the fifteenth day of May annually' ; and an}' person offending 

 against either of the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay 

 not more than twenty- dollars nor less than ten dollars, to be recovered 

 by an action of debt before any court proper to try the same, one half 

 to the use of the town of Maiden, the other half to him or them who 

 may sue therefor. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That the fourth section of the act 

 to which this is in addition be and the same is hereby repealed ; and 

 this act is to continue and be in force until the expiration of the said 

 act, and no longer. — [March 9, 1804. 



An Act for the preservation and to regulate the Taking of the Fish called Shad and 

 Alewives, in the Stream called Miles River, in Wenham, Hamilton and Ipswich, in 

 the County of Essex. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 431. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That the 

 several towns of Wenham, Hamilton and Ipswich shall, at their an- 

 nual meeting for the choice of officers, respectively choose annually 

 a committee of three persons in each town, whose duty it shall be, 

 in the months of March or April annually, to sell at public vendue 

 the privilege of taking said fish in such places and in such manner as 

 a majority of the said committee shall agree upon, in said towns of 

 Wenham, Hamilton and Ipswich, in said Miles River, on Mondays, 

 Wednesdays and Fridays in each week, for so long a time in each 

 3'ear as said committee shall agree upon ; and said committee, before 

 they enter on the execution of their office, shall be sworn to the 

 faithful and impartial discharge of their duty in the same manner as 

 other town officers are ; and the net proceeds of said sale shall be 

 equally divided between the said three towns. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the committee of the town of 

 Wenham the first year, the committee of the town of Hamilton the 

 second 3'ear, and the committee of the town of Ipswich the third 

 j-ear, and so on in rotation forever hereafter, shall notify the town 

 clerks of the other towns concerned in said fishing, of the time and 

 place in which said committee shall meet, said notice to be served ten 

 days at least before the time of meeting ; at which and all subsequent 

 meetings, the majority present shall have the authorit}' of the whole 

 committees ; and said committee shall give due notice in each of said 

 towns, of the time and place, and the sale of said right of catching 



