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county of Plymouth, at any other time than that which is allowed by 

 an act passed on the twenty-fifth day of Februarys in the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and fifteen, regulating the fishery in said 

 river, the}' may seize and take the same away ; and it shall be for- 

 feited to the use of the town of Pembroke. — [March 18, 1840. 



An Act to incorporate the Sanchachantacket Fishing Company in Edgartovvn, in Dukes 



County. 



1840, 67. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: SECt. 1. Ichabod 

 Norton, Constant Norton, Benjamin Kidder, their associates and 

 successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the San- 

 chachantacket Fishing Company, in Edgartown in Dukes County ; 

 and are empowered to alter the present outlet of Sanchachantacket 

 Pond, so called, for the purpose of flowing the meadows in the winter 

 season, and for a herring fisherj' therein, and to regulate the satne ; 

 and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges and b.e 

 subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the 

 forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. If any person, without the permission of said corpora- 

 tion, shall take, catch or haul on shore any herrings in said pond 

 or in the creeks or outlets which may be made therefrom, he shall 

 forfeit and pa}-, for the use of said corporation, a sum not exceeding 

 three dollars, if the quantity so taken be less than one barrel ; but if 

 the quaniity be more than one barrel the person so offending shall 

 f« rfeit and pay for each barrel of herring so taken, the sum of five 

 dollars, to be recovered in an}' court proper to try the same. 



Sect. 3. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the said com- 

 pany to take or use the private property of any person without his 

 consent ; or deprive any person of the town of Edgartown of any 

 privilege which he now has of taking any kind of fish, excepting her- 

 ring, from said outlet or pond. 



Sect. 4. All persons who now are or may hereafter be owners of 

 land adjoining said pond or the creek or outlet to be made therefrom, 

 may become members of said corporation, subject, however, to pay 

 their proportional part of the expenses which shall have been 

 incurred by said corporation before the time of their admission. 



Sect. 5. The present owners of lands adjoining the said pond or 

 the said creek or outlet, shall have each one share only in said fishery, 

 and no one of them shall, by conveyance or descent of his lands, 

 create or cause to be created an additional number of shares : pro- 

 vided, however, that each of the present owners or his successor or 

 successors, may divide his original share into parts or fractions. — 

 [March 21, 1840. 



