INLAND FISHERIES. 215 



liam the second year, and so on alternately forever, shall notify the 

 town clerk of the other town concerned in said fishery, of the time 

 and place in which said committees shall meet, ten days at least be- 

 fore the time of meeting ; and the members of the committee present 

 at said meeting shall constitute a quorum for doing business.. 



Sect. 3. If either of said towns shall neglect to choose its com- 

 mittee as aforesaid, or if the committee of either town shall neglect to 

 give notice, as above required, to the other, said town shall forfeit and 

 pay to the use of the other which shall choose such committee or 

 whose committee shall give said notice, for each neglect, the sum of 

 one hundred dollars. 



Sect. 4. All persons except the purchasers as aforesaid, or those 

 emplo3'ed by'them, who shall take any of said fish in said rivers or 

 in any pond or stream having communication therewith, between the 

 first day of April and the first day of .June, both inclusive, in each 

 year, shall forfeit and pay not more than twenty dollars for each and 

 every offence. 



Sect. o. The owner or occupier of anj'^ dam on said rivers shall 

 annuall}', between the first day of April and first day of June next 

 following, for such term of time and in such manner as said committee 

 shall direct, open a sufficient passage for said fish through said dam ; 

 and on failure of opening such passage or of continuing the same 

 open as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pa}' the sum of one hundred dol- 

 lars ; and said committee ma}' open such dam when neglected as 

 afoi'esaid, at the expense of the proprietor thereof: provided^ no more 

 damage is thereby' done the owner than is necessar}^ to effect said 

 purpose. 



Sect. 6. If any person shall make any wear or cause any other 

 obstruction to the free passage of said fish up said rivers, or shall take 

 any of said fish, or shall make use of any seine to take said fish in 

 said rivers or in an}^ pond or stream communicating with the same, in 

 an}' other manner or at any other time or place than such as may be 

 approved and established by said committee, between the first day of 

 April and first day of .June as aforesaid, he -shall forfeit and pay not 

 more than twenty dollars for each and every offence ; and said com- 

 mittee shall remove such wear or obstruction at the expense of the 

 person causing the same, and also seize, to the use and disposal of 

 said towns, any seine used as aforesaid, and make complaint to the 

 town treasurer of either of the towns aforesaid, of any violation of 

 this act that shall come to their knowledge. 



Sect. 7. The treasurers of the aforesaid towns respectively, may, 

 upon any complaint of any member of the committees sue for the 

 recovery of any forfeitures incurred by a breach of any of the regula- 

 tions provided in this act, and also of any such further regulations as 



