134 LAWS RELATING TO 



sluice-ways and passages as above directed, if not already made, and 

 keep the same in repair during the continuance of the act to which 

 this is in addition, and shall not be holden to make any other altera- 

 tions at their expense during the continuance of the said act ; and the 

 said mill-holders shall be liable to the same penalties, to be sued for 

 and recovered in the same manner, for an}- breaches of the duties 

 enjoined upon them by this act, as are prescribed for the like offences 

 in the act to which this act is in addition. — [Februar}- ^6, 1813. 



[1837, 195.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 191.] 



An Act in addition to the several Acts to prevent the destruction of Alewives and other 



Fish, in Ipswich River. ; 



1812, 127. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, the time for the passage-way or passage-ways to be 

 kept open for the fish to pass or repass through any mill-dam or dams 

 now erected, or to be hereafter erected on the stream running from 

 Humphrey's Pond, so called, into Ipswich River, shall be from the 

 tenth day of May to the tenth da}- of June, annuall}^, anything in the 

 beforementioned acts to the contrarj'^ notwithstanding. 



Sect. 2. Be it fxirtlier enacted, That the agent appointed 1)}- the 

 Danvers Cotton Factor}- Company shall always be one of the fish com- 

 mittee provided for in the acts to which this is in addition and 

 amendment. — [February 27, 1813. 



An Act to preserve and regulate the Eel Fishery in the Town of Chatham. 



1812, 132. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the first 

 day of September next, it shall not be lawful for any person not an 

 inhabitant of the town of Chatham, to take, within the limits of said 

 town, any eels, without a permit, in writing, from the major part of 

 the selectmen of the said town, expressing the name of the person, and 

 the quantity permitted to be taken ; and every person so offending 

 shall forfeit and pay for every dozen so taken, the sum of twenty-five 

 cents : provided, nevertheless, that the major part of the selectmen, for 

 the time being, shall have power to give permits, in writing, to any 

 person, to take eels in said town of Chatham, at such times and in 

 such quantities as they shall deem reasonable, and express in their 

 permit ; provided, also, that every inhabitant of said town of Chat- 

 ham, without such permit, shall have a right to take eels within the 

 limits of said town, for the use of his family. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That if any boat, cart, sled, horse 

 or crafts shall be found within the limits of said town of Chatham, 

 and not owned therein, with any eels taken within the limits of said 

 town, without a permit as aforesaid from the selectmen, it shall be 

 lawful for any of the fish- wardens, or for any inhabitant or inhabitants 



