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so offending shall forfeit and pay for each barrel of fish so taken, five 

 dollars, to be recovered in an}- conrt proper to tr^' the same. 



Sect. 3. If au}- damage shall be done by said corporation to the 

 property of an}^ individual not a member of said corporation, such 

 individual shall be entitled to reasonable-damage. 



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

 land adjoining said brook may become members of said corporation, 

 subject, however, to their proportional part of the expenses which 

 may have been incurred by said corporation before the time of their 

 admission. 



Sect. 5. An}- member of this corporation who shall take or catch, 

 by seine or otherwise, an}- alewives within the limits mentioned in 

 the second section of this act, except in tlie brook or pond aforesaid, 

 shall incur the penalty provided for in said section, to be recovered in 

 the manner therein set forth. — [April 11, 1836. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 214.] 

 An Act in relation to the Alewive Fishery in Weweantit River. 



1836,218. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. All the pro- 

 visions of the several laws relating to the fish called alewives in 

 Weweantit Eiver, and the fishery connected with said river, so far 

 as any duties are required of or any liabilities are imposed on the 

 inhabitants of the town of Rochester in the county of Plymouth, 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 2. All the rights and privileges by law conferred on the 

 inhabitants of the said town of Rochester to the fishery of said river 

 and the proceeds thereof, are hereby conferred on Joshua B. Tobej, 

 his heirs and assigns, and he and they are required, in the fall of each 

 successive year hereafter, to appoint three suitable persons as mem- 

 bers of the committee for said river, who shall be required to per- 

 form the same duties and are vested with the same authority as the 

 committee of the town of Rochester now are, and the said Tobey, his 

 heirs and assigns, shall be subject to the same pecuniary liabilities as 

 the inhabitants of Rochester now are. — [April 13, 1836. 



1837. 



[1831, 73.] 



Ax Act in addition to an Act to incorporate the Skinnaquits Fishing Company in Har- 

 wich and Chatham. 



1837, 18. Be it enacted, etc., ns follows: Sect. 1. The time of 

 holding the annual meeting of the Skinnaquits Fishing Company in 

 Harwich and Chatham, shall be on the first Tuesday in March instead 

 of the first Tuesday in April, as provided in the act to incorporate 

 said company. — [February 22, 1837. 



