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corporation haul on shore any fish within one-fourth of a mile from 

 the mouth of said river, under the penalty of twentj^-five dollars for 

 each otfence. 



Sect. 3. Said corporation may, at their own expense, make a free 

 passage for said fish into the mill-pond at the head of said river, for 

 the space of fifteen days, annuall}', in the month of April or May : 

 X>rovided, they do not injure the owner of the dam now erected upon 

 said river. 



Sect. 4. If any damage shall be done b}' said corporation to the 

 property of an}' individual not a member of the corporation, such in- 

 dividual shall be entitled to reasonable damage therefor. 



Sect. 5. All persons who are now or shall hereafter be owners of 

 land adjoining said river, may become members of said corporation, 

 subject, liowever, to pay their proportional part of the expenses 

 which shall have been incurred by said corporation before the time of 

 their admission. — [April 9, 1836. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 434.] 

 An Act further regulating the Alewive Fishery in Weymouth. 



1836, 198. Be it enacted, etc. ^ as follows: Sect. 1. The right of 

 taking the fish called alewives in the town of Weymouth and which 

 right is now limited, by an act passed March the seventh, in the year 

 one thousand eight hundred and one, to Mondays, Wednesdays and 

 Frida3's, shall hereafter, under the limitations and restrictions of the 

 said act, be extended to Saturdays also. — [April 9, 1836. 



[1846, 92.] 



An Act to incorporate the Orleans Fishing Company. 



1836, 205. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. Nathan Rog- 

 ers, James Higgins, Samuel Eldridge, their associates and successors, 

 are made a corporation by the name of the Orleans Fishing Companj^, 

 in Orleans, and are empowered to open the brook running from Hes- 

 ter's Pond, so called, to Pleasant Ba}' in said Orleans, so far as is 

 necessary for the purpose of an alewive fisher}', 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, passed on the 

 fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. 



Sect. 2. If any person without the permission of the corporation, 

 shall take, catch or haul on shore any alewives in said brook or pond, 

 or within one-eighth of a mile in an}' direction from the mouth of said 

 brook, he shall forfeit and pay, for tiie use of said corporation, a sum 

 not exceeding two dollars if the quantity so taken be less than one 

 barrel ; but if the quantity taken be more than one barrel the person 



