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Sect. 4. Be it farther enacted^ That tlie selectmen of the said 

 town of Rochester are hereby* authorized to open, in each and every 

 dam in said river, wherever they may thiiik proper, sufficient passages 

 for the 3'ouug fish to pass down said river ; and if any person shall 

 obstruct any such passage so opened as aforesaid, without the consent 

 of the sslectmen, shall for each otfence forfeit and pay the sum of 

 fourteen dollars, to be recovered as in said law provided for taking 

 fish contrary to law, and for the same use. — [February' 16, 1803. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 512.] 



An Act to enable the Town of Medford to dispose of the Privilege of Taking Fish 

 called Shad and Alewives, in Mistick River, within the limits of said Town, and to 

 regulate the same. 



Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 98. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That it shall and 

 may be lawful for the town of Medford, in the county of Middlesex, an- 

 nually, at any legal meeting of the inhabitants of said town, to sell or 

 otherwise dispose of the privilege of taking fish in Mistick River, within 

 the limits of said town, so far as said town bounds on both sides of 

 said river, at such times only as is already provided by the law to 

 prevent the destruction of shad and alewives in said river ; and the 

 emolument arising from said privilege shall be appropriated by said 

 town to such purposes and uses as the inhabitants thereof shall in 

 town meeting from time to time determine. 



Sect 2. Be it farther enacted, That if the purchaser or pur- 

 chasers, manager or managers, or those emploj^ed by them, shall 

 presume to take any of said fish at any other place in said town than 

 shall be b}- said town determined, and if any other person or persons 

 whatever, except the purchaser or purchasers, manager or managers 

 of said privilege, or those employed by them, shall presume to take 

 or catch any of the said fish in Mistick River, within the town of 

 Medford, otherwise than may be by said town determined, he or they 

 so offending shall for each offence forfeit and pa}' a sum not exceed- 

 ing thirteen dollars nor less than two dollars, at the discretion of the 

 justice before whom the same shall be tried. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted. That the said town of Medford 

 shall, at their annual meeting in March or April, choose a committee, 

 not exceeding seven nor less than three freeholders of said town, who 

 shall be sworn to the faitliful discharge of their duty, enjoined upon 

 them b}' this act, and also the act to prevent the destruction of shad 

 and alewives in Mistick River, within the towns of Cambridge, 

 Charlestown and Medford ; and it shall be the duty of said committee 

 to cause the natural course of said river to be kept open and without 

 obstruction during the whole time said fish pass up or down said 

 river, and remove any such as may be found therein ; and the said 



