110 LAWS RELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 504.] 



An Act in addition to " An Act to regulate the Alewive Fishery in the towns of L)-nn , 

 Lynnficld and Reading, in tlie counties of Essex and Middlesex, and for repealing all 

 Laws heretofore made for that purpose." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 398. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the com. 

 mittees chosen and appointed as required by the fourth section of 

 the act to which this is an addition, shall cause the natural t;ourse 

 of the rivers, passage-ways or streams through which the fish men- 

 tioned in said act shall or ma}' pass, to be opened in each j'ear on the 

 tenth day of April. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person or persons, author- 

 ized by the act to which this is in addition to take fish in any river, 

 stream or passage-ways, as in said act is mentioned, shall take any 

 fish as aforesaid except on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdaj'S in 

 each week; anything in the said act to the contrarj' notwithstanding. 



Sect. 3. Be it farther enacted^ That if an}' person or persons shall 

 extend an}' wear or other obstruction across said river, stream or 

 passage-way, or shall extend, fasten and confine any seine across the 

 same, the person or persons so oflTending shall be subject and liable to, 

 and shall forfeit and pay such sura as is provided in the second section 

 of the act to which this is in addition, to be recovered and appropri- 

 ated as in said act is described. — [March 8, 1804. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 431.] 



An Act in addition to and repealing the fourth Section of an Act entitled " An Act for 

 providing a Passage for Fish from Mystic River to Ell Fond, in the town of Maiden." 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 399. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That it shall 

 not be lawful to take shad or alewives in Ell Pond, in the town of 

 Maiden, or in any part of the stream running therefrom into Mystic 

 River ; and any person oflTending herein shall for each offence forfeit 

 and pay a sum of not more than twenty dollars nor less than five dol- 

 ars, 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 the use of him or them who may sue therefor. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That Samuel Tufts, mentioned in 

 the act to which this is in addition, from the fifteenth day of April to 

 the fifteenth day of May annually, shall not draw oflf the water from 

 the said stream so as to reduce the same below the passage-way men- 

 tioned in said act, unless by license from the fish committee appointed 

 by said town of Maiden ; and if by virtue of such license the said 

 Samuel Tufts, or any other person, shall reduce the water below the 

 said passage-way, the person who shall so reduce the water shall be 

 held to make and keep open some other passage-way for said fish, to 

 the acceptance of the committee aforesaid ; and if there shall be at any 



