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individual shall be entitled to reasonable damage, to be estimated in 

 the same manner as damages occasioned b}' the laying out of liigh- 

 waj's. — [April 7, 1837. 



[1815, 83.] 

 An Act to further regulate the Fishery in Dennis. 



1837, 135. Be it enacted, etc., asfollotvs: Sect. 1. The com- 

 mittee chosen b}- the inhabitants of the town of Dennis, at their annual 

 meeting to regulate the fishery in said town, shall, in addition to their 

 duties now b}- law prescribed, appoint all such suitable persons as 

 make application, being inhabitants of said Dennis, to catch alewives 

 in said town, and fix the compensation to be paid therefor. 



Sect. 2. The inhabitants of said town, at their annual meeting, 

 shall determine the quantity of said fish each family in said town 

 shall receive, and establish the price they shall pay therefor. — [April 

 12, 1837. 



An Act to incorporate the Rock Harbor Fishing Company in Orleans. 



1837, 159. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Ilichard 

 Sparrow, Ira Mayo and Timothy' Smith, their associates and suc- 

 cessors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Rock 

 Harbor Fishing Compan}' in Orleans, in the count}^ of Barnstable, 

 and are empowered to open the stream running from Tan Pond, so 

 called, to the mouth of Rock Harbor in said Orleans, so far as is 

 necessary, for the purpose of an alewive fisher}-, and to i-egulate the 

 same ; and also to erect a fish-wear on the north side of Xanwicoit 

 River in said Orleans, in Meeting-house Pond, so called, where said 

 river and pond adjoin the land of Isaac Doane ; and for this purpose 

 shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the 

 duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the fortj'-fourth chapter 

 of the Revised Statutes. 



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

 shall take, catch or haul on shore any alewives in said Tan Pond or 

 stream, he shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said corporation, a 

 sum not exceeding two dollars, if the quantity- so taken be less than 

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

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

 dollars ; or if any person shall take an}- fish from said wear, without 

 permission of said corporation, he shall forfeit and pay a fine not 

 exceeding five dollars, if the quantity so taken be less than one hun- 

 dred pounds, but if the quantity so taken exceed one hundred pounds, 

 he shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every hundred pounds so taken, 

 to be recovered in any court proper to try the same. 



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



