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within a line drawn from Monomo}' Point to Point Gammon, in the 

 county of Barnstable, for the purpose of carrying them away or oflfer- 

 ing them away, under a penalty- not exceeding twentj' dollars for each 

 and every offence anda forfeiture of all fish so taken, to be recovered 

 by indictment or b}' complaint before any justice of the peace ; one 

 half of said penalty and forfeiture to enure to the use of the com- 

 plainant, the other half to the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 2. No person, whether an inhabitant of this state or other- 

 wise, shall throw overboard an^' offal or dressing of shad within the 

 aforesaid line, or in an}' part of said bay below low-water mark, under 

 a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, to be recovered 

 in any court proper to try the same, to 'the use of the person who 

 shall prosecute therefor. — [March 3, 1842. 



[1855, 88.] 



Ax Act to incorporate the Long Pond Fishing Company, in Yarmouth. 



1842, 75. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Zeno Kelle}^ 

 Howes Berr}', Eliakim Studley, their associates and successors, are 

 hereby made a corporation by the name of the Long Pond Fishing 

 Compan}- in Yarmouth, and are empowered to open a brook or outlet 

 from Long Pond to Swan Pond, so called, and also improve Parker's 

 River (into which said ponds empty) , to the sea, so far as may be 

 necessary for the purpose of an alewive fishery, and to regulate the 

 same ; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges 

 and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities contained 

 in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. If any person without permission of the corporatioa 

 shall take, catch or haul on shore any alewives in said ponds or the 

 brook or outlet so made, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay 

 for the use of the corporation, a sum not exceeding two dollars, if the 

 quantity so taken be less than one barrel ; but if said quantity be 

 more than one barrel, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay 

 for each and every barrel of fish so taken, five dollars, to be recovered 

 in any court proper to try the same. 



Sect. 3. If any damage shall be done by said corporation to the 

 property of any individual, such individual shall be entitled to rea- 

 sonable damages. 



Sect. 4. Any inhabitant of the town of Yarmouth shall be en- 

 titled to the privilege of becoming a member of said corporation : 

 provided, application is made therefor within six months from the 

 passage of this act ; and provided, also, that said applicants pay their 

 proportion of the expenses which shall have accrued to said corpora- 

 tion. 



Sect. 5. If the said corporation shall neglect to execute and 



