INLAND FISIIKRIES. 207 



Sect. 4. If an}' person shall sweep with an}' seine or net at any 

 time, place or manner other than as before mentioned, or shall set 

 any seine, net, weare or other obstruction in said river or in any part 

 thereof, with the intent to take or destroy any shad or alewives, he 

 shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered to 

 the use of the county in which the offence was committed, or by action 

 of debt, one half to the use of the person prosecuting for the same 

 and the other half to the use of the town in which the offence shall be 

 committed. 



Sect. 5. . All laws heretofore passed relating to the fishery in Pal- 

 mer's River in Swansey, are hereby repealed. — [April 4, 18;3fi. 



[1837, 184.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 238, 512.] 

 An Act further to regulate tbe Fisheries in Mystic River. 



1836, 158. Beit enacted^ etc., as follows : Sect. 1. The inhabi- 

 tants of the town of Medford may hereafter take shad and alewives 

 in the Mystic River, on the flood as well as on tbe ebb tide, on Wed- 

 nesday of each week, between the first day uf March and the last day 

 of June, inclusive, anything in the "act of February fourteenth, in 

 tbe year eighteen hundred and twenty-one," for the regulation of the 

 shad and alewive fishery in Cambridge, Charlestown, Medford and 

 West Cambridge to the contrary notwithstanding. — [April 8, 183G. 



[1845, 149.] 



An Act to incorporate the Andrews Fishing Company in Harwich. 



1836,177. Be it enacted, etc., as folio 'A-s: Sect. 1. Elijah Small, 

 Obed Brooks, Alvan Walker, their associates and successors, are 

 "hereby made a corporation by the name of the Andrews Fishing Com-^ 

 pany, in Harwich, for the purpose of making the necessary improve- 

 ment for the preservation and taking of the fish called alewives in 

 Andrews River in said Harwich, and for that purpose shall have all 

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

 and liabilities set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of tiie Revised Stat- 

 utes, passed on the fourth day of November in the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and thirty-five. 



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

 tion, shall take, catch or haul on shore any of said fish in said river 

 or the pond from which said river issues, or within one-fourth of a 

 mile, in any direction, from the mouth of said river, he shall forfeit 

 and pay a fine, not exceeding five dollars for each offence if the quan- 

 tity so taken be less than one barrel ; but if the quantity be more 

 than one barrel such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for each 

 barrel of fish so taken, five dollars, for the use of said corporation, 

 to be recovered in any court proper to try the same ; nor shall said 



