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benefit, in an}- manner they may think proper, and shall choose by 

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

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

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



Sect. 2. Tlie selectmen for the time being shall post up in three 

 or more public places in said town, the regulations established by said 

 town respecting the fishery in the river and streams aforesaid. 



Sect. 3. If an^- person shall take any fish in said river and 

 streams at any^time or in any place or manner, other tlian shall be 

 allowed by said town as aforesaid, he shall for each offence, on con- 

 viction thereof, pay a fine not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered 

 in any court proper to tr^- the same, to the use of him who shall 

 prosecute for the same : provided^ however^ that nothing contained in 

 this act shall be so construed as to prohibit any inhabitant of the 

 town of Rowle}', from taking fish in that part of the branch of 

 Parker River called Mill River, which constitutes in part the divid- 

 ing line between the towns of Newbury and Rowley. 

 '•tSSect. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provi- 

 sions of this act, are hereb}' repealed. — [April 18, 1837. 



[1859, 54.] 



1838. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 255,] 

 Ax Act to regulate the Fishery in the Agawam and Half-way Pond Rivers. 



1838, 19. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The towns of 

 Plymouth and Warehara shall annually, at their meetings in the month 

 of November, respectively, choose by ballot a committee of not more 

 than three persons each, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge 

 of their duties, in the manner of other town oflflcers ; which committee 

 shall in the month of March, annually, after a public notice of at least 

 ten days, sell b}' public vendue the privilege of taking the fish called 

 alewives and shad in the Agawam and Half-way Pond Rivers, in 

 the count}' of Plymouth, at such places not exceeding two in said 

 towns, and on such days not exceeding three in each week, as said 

 committee shall agree upon and publish in their notice of sale ; they 

 shall also express in said notice the manner of taking and disposing of 

 said fish, and the price at which the purchasers may sell them, which 

 price shall not exceed twentj'-five cents a hundred for alewives and four 

 cents each for shad : provided, nevertheless, that said committee may fix 

 upon one place in the town of Wareham, and one day in each week, 

 for taking shad ditferent from the place and day of the week appointed 

 for taking alewives. 



Sect. 2. The committee of the town of Pl3'mouth, the first year 

 after the passage of this act, and the committee of the town of "Ware- 



