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Sect. 3. If an}- person shall take any of the fish aforesaid in the 

 creeks or brooks or ponds in which said fish cast their spawn, at any- 

 time or in any place or manner other than shall be allowed by said 

 selectmen as aforesaid, each peison so offending, for each and everj- 

 offence, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding twenty 

 dollars. 



Sect. ,4. The inhabitants of said town at their annual meeting, 

 shall determine the quantity of said fish, lach family in said town 

 shall receive, and establish the price they shall pay therefor. 



Sect. 5. All persons not otherwise disqualified, shall be taken to 

 be competent and legal witnesses in any prosecution upon this act, 

 they being inhabitants of said town of Wellfleet notwithstanding. 



Sect. 6. All the forfeitures incurred b}' virtue of this act shall be 

 two-thirds to said town of Wellfleet, and one-third to the person or 

 persons giving information, to be recovered in an action of debt in 

 any court proper to try the same, to be brought by the treasurer 

 thereof. 



Sect. 7. All laws heretofore made regulating the alewive flsherj- 

 in the said town of AVellfleet are hereby repealed. — [March 23, 1836. 



[1865, 85.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 378.] 

 An Act to regulate the Fishery in Palmer's River. 



1836, 130. Be it enacted^ etc., asfolloivs: Sect. 1. From and 

 after the passing of this act, no person, except as is hereinafter pro- 

 vided, shall take shad or alewives in seines or with nets, in Palmer's 

 River, in the town of Swansey, in the county of Bristol, from the first- 

 day of April to the twentieth day of June, in each year: provided^ 

 that the inhabitants of Swansey may, at a legal meeting held for that 

 purpose, dispose of the privilege at public aucticju, of taking shad and 

 alewives with seinei? o^b't i" said river, for the time aforesaid, to such 

 persons as may ofler the highest price for the same, and shall give 

 sufficient security for the pa^'ment of the purchase mone}', at such 

 time and in such manner as the town shall order. 



Sect. 2. The town of Swansej- may have two seines only, and 

 each seine ma}' have the privilege of sweeping three days, in the 

 day-time only, in each week, beginning on Monday at sunrise and 

 ending at sunset on Wednesdaj-, ami may sweep in any part of the 

 river aforesaid, between Rhode Island line and Rehoboth line on said 

 river. 



Sect. 3. The town of Swansey, at their annual meeting in March 

 or April, ma}' choose one or more suitable persons to serve as fish- 

 wardens, who, when sworn, shall see this act enforced and may pros- 

 ecute for all violations thereof. 



