INLAND FISHERIES. 239 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [February U, 1848. 



[1839, 83.] 



An Act in addition to an Act to incorporate tlie Trap's Creek Fishing Company, in 



Edgartown. 



1848, 47. Be it enacted, etc., as follotvs : Sect. 1. The present 

 owners of lands adjoining the said Trap's Pond or Creek, shall have 

 each one share onl}' in said fisher}', and no one of them shall, by con- 

 veyance of descent of his lands, create or cause to be created, an 

 additional number of shares : proviihd, Jiowever, that each of the 

 present owners and his successor, may divide his original share into 

 parts or fractions. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [March 18, 1848. 



[1855,299.] 



[Sp Laws, vol. 1, p. 269; 1814, 128.] 

 An Act relating to the Alewive Fishery in North River. 



1848, 116. Be it enacttd, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. So much of 

 the act passed February twenty -fifih, in the year one thousand eight 

 hundred and fifteen, as prescribes the length of seines to be used in 

 the North River in the taking of alewives, be and the same is hereby 

 repealed : provided, however, that the legal rights of any person and 

 corporations, who may have commenced suits under the provisions of 

 the law hereb}- repealed, shall remain the same as before the passage 

 of this act. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [Ainil 18, 1848. 



[1852, 66 ; 1853, 350 ; 1856, 83 ; 1872, 229 ; 1875, Res. 36 ; 1876, 103.] 



An Act to incorporate the Pocha Pond Meadow and Fishing Conipanj'. 

 1848, 185. Be it enac'ed, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. John Vinson, 

 J. T. E. Gage, William W. Huxford, their associates and successors, 

 are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Pocha Pond Mendow 

 • and Fishing Company, in Edgartown, in Dukes Count}-, and are em- 

 powered to close the outlet of said pond b}- building a causeway from 

 the twenty-acre lot, so called, to Cape Poge Beach in said Edgar- 

 town : provided, that said causewn}- shall be built of suitable width 

 and kept in such repair that loaded carriages ma}' pa?s and repass in 

 safety over the same, and shall at all times be free for the {)ublic to 

 travel over ; and to make a new outlet or creek from Pocha Pond into 

 the harbor of Edgartown, through lands of said proprietors, at a con- 

 venient place, for the purpose of draining the meadows and for regu- 

 lating the herring fishery thereby created : provided, that suitable 

 bridges shall be built over said creek or outlet, where carriages 



