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tbe execution of their duty, shall be subject to the same penalties as 

 by this act Is incurred for placing obstructions on said streams and 

 passage-ways. 



Sect. 7. Be it further enacted, That if the committee or either of them 

 shall detect any person or persons in attempting to take any of said 

 fish at anj-time and place, or in anj' manner, otherwise than is allowed 

 b}' said committee, or shall find any such fish with anj^ person or per- 

 sons, they shall be considered and deemed to have taken such fish 

 unlawfull}', and shall be subject to the penalties of this act accordingly, 

 unless such person or persons can make it appear, on trial, thej' came 

 b}' said fish in some other wa}'. 



Sect. 8. Be it farther enacted, That if anj- minor or servant shall 

 be found taking any of said fish, in any way contrary to this act, or 

 contrary to the rules and regulations of the said town of Bosford, or 

 their committee as aforesaid, the parents, masters or guardians of 

 such servants or minors shall be held to pay all fines incurred by tliem 

 for any breach of this act, or the rules and orders of the town afore- 

 said. 



Sect. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 

 committee of the town, chosen as aforesaid, to prosecute for any 

 breach of this act ; and all prosecutions shall be brought in the name 

 of the town treasurer for the time being, by an action on the case, in 

 an}' court proper to try the same ; and all fines or forfeitures recovered 

 thereb}' sliall accrue, one-half thereof to the complainant, and the other 

 half to the use of the town ; and no person, by reason of his being one 

 of the said committee or an inhabitant of said town, shall thereby be 

 disqualified from being a witness in any prosecution for a breach of 

 this act.— [March 3, 1804. 



An Act to preserve and regulate the Fisliery in the towns of Rehoboth and Swanzey, 

 in the County of Bristol, and for repealing an Act entitled " An Act to prevent the 

 Destruction of the Fish called Shad and Alewives, in their passage up the Rivers and 

 Streams in the town of Rehoboth, in the county of Bristol," passed June 27, 1786. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 378. Sect. 1. Beit enacted. That from and 

 after the passing of this act there shall not be an}' seine or drag-net set or 

 drawn at anj' time in Palmer's River, in said Rehoboth ; and that no 

 seine or drag-net shall be set or drawn in said river within the town 

 of Swanze}-, between the first day of April and the twentieth da}^ of 

 June annually, only on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, between 

 the rising of the sun and the setting of the same on each of said da^'s. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted, That if anj' person or persons shall 

 at any time draw or set any seine or drag-net in said Palmer's River, 

 in said town of Rehoboth, or shall draw or set an}' seine or drag-net 

 in said river in said town of Swanzey, between the first day of April 

 and the twentieth day of June annually, except as abovesaid on 



