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the ponds or streams connected therewith, otherwise than maj* be 

 allowed by the said committee, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceed- 

 ing twenty dollars for ever}^ such offence. 



Sect. 4. If any person or persons shall take any of the said fish 

 called herrings, alewives or perch, in the said Bass River, or in the 

 ponds and streams connected therewith, or within half a mile, in any 

 direction, from the mouth of said river, at any time or place or in any 

 manner other than may be allowed by the said committee, each person so 

 offending shall for each and every such offence, upon conviction thereof, 

 forfeit and paj^ a fine not exceeding ten dollars, if the quantity of fish 

 so taken be less than one barrel, but if the quantity of fish so taken 

 shall be one barrel or more, such person or persons so offending shal 

 forfeit and pay for every barrel of fish so taken a sum not more than 

 twenty dollars nor less than ten dollars. 



Sect. 5. If any vessel, boat or craft shall be found within the lim- 

 its of the said river or the ponds or streams connected therewith, or 

 within half a mile of the said river's mouth, with any more of the said 

 fish on board the same than is allowed by said committee, or if any 

 person or persons, with any such vessel, boat or craft shall be detected 

 in taking or in attempting to take any of the said fish in any manner 

 different from the regulations of said committee, or with seines, nets 

 or other instruments of a kind or size different from that established 

 by the said committee, it shall be the duty of such committee, or 

 either one of them, and they are hereby authorized to seize such ves- 

 sel, boat or craft, seine or other instruments, and detain the same not 

 exceeding forty-eight hours, in order that the same maj' be attached 

 by due process of law, and made answerable for such fines and for- 

 feitures incurred, with costs of suit. 



Sect. 6. All fines and forfeitures incurred under this act shall go, 

 one half to the said towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, and the other 

 half to the person who shall prosecute for the same, excepting that 

 when the said committee or either one of them shall prosecute, then 

 the forfeitures shall accrue wholly to the said towns, to be recovered 

 by complaint before a justice of the peace, or in amy court competent 

 to tr}' the same. 



Sect. 7. All laws heretofore passed regulating the fisheries in 

 either of the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, which are inconsistent 

 with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, excepting that a 

 fish-committee which may be chosen the present year under the pro- 

 visions of an}' existing law, shall be considered the committee of such 

 town under the operation of this act. 



Sect. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, — 



[March 16, 1849. 



[1869, 384.] 



