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ma}' be provided and established bj' said committees, in conformity ta 

 this act ; and all fines and forfeitures recovered for an}' breaches 

 aforesaid, except such as are provided in the third section of this :ict, 

 shall, together with the proceeds of said fishery, be equally' divided 

 between said towns ; and all the expenses attending said suits, shall 

 in like manner be equally borne b}' them. And the treasurers afore- 

 said respectively, may, in behalf of their respective towns, recover, 

 by an action on the case, of an}' person or corporation withholding 

 the same, one-half part thereof, in any court proper to try said 

 action. 



Sect. 8. The purchasers of the privilege of taking said fish shall 

 in all respects conform themselves to such regulations and conditions 

 as said committee shall publish, as aforesaid ; and on fkilure thereof 

 shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding twent}' 

 dollars. 



Sect. 9. An}- member of the committees aforesaid may be admitted 

 as a competent witness in any prosecution for a breach of any regula- 

 tion as aforesaid. 



Sect. 10. The committees chosen b}- said towns in the month of 

 November last, for regulating the taking of alewives in said rivers, 

 agreeably to the provisions of the act then existing for that purpose, 

 may perform all the duties for the present year that are required of 

 committees hereafter to be chosen under the provisions of this act; 

 and they, as also committees hereafter chosen for the purposes of said 

 fishery, one dollar and twenty-five cents each for every day's service 

 they may be actually engaged in performing the duties herein required 

 of them. 



Sect. 11. All laws heretofore passed respecting the fisher}^ in said 

 rivers are hereby repealed, excepting so far as respects any penalties 

 already incurred for a breach of the same. 



Sect. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [February 26, 1838. 



[1844, 65 ; 1853, 377.] 



An Act to incorporate the Sandwich Buzzard's Bay Fishing Company. 



1838,111. Be it enacted, etc. ^ as follows : Sect. 1. Edward B 

 Gibbs, Henr}' Gibbs and Benjamin Bourne, their associates and suc- 

 cessors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Sandwich 

 Buzzard's Bay Fishing Company, in the town of Sandwich, in the 

 coimty of Barnstable, with authorit}' to regulate the brook running- 

 through their lauds, from Great Pond through other smaller ponds 

 into Buzzard's Bay, in said Sandwich, as far as is necessary, for the 

 purpose of an alewive fishery ; and for this purpose shall have all the 

 powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions 



