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Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the committee aforesaid shall 

 pay over to the treasurer of the said town of Harwich, on or before 

 the first da}^ of Januar}^, annual!}', all the net proceeds of the sale of 

 said fish, for the use of said town, and any committee, appointed as 

 aforesaid, that shall neglect or refuse to pay over as aforesaid all the 

 moneys they shall have received as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay, for 

 each offence, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars nor less than 

 fifty dollars, to be recovered by their treasurer, for the use of the 

 inhabitants of said town, by action of debt, in an}' court proper to try 



the same. — [June 16, 1813. 



[1813, 115.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 166.] 



An Act in addition to an Act entitled " An Act to prevent the destruction and to regu- 

 late the catching of the Fish called Alcwives, in their passage up the Rivers and 

 Streams in the town of Harwich in the county of Barnstable," passed the fourth daj' 

 of July, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven ; and also of another Act, in addition 

 thereto, passed the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirteen. 



1813, 115. Be it enacted, That an act, passed the fourth day of July, 

 seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled " An Act to prevent the 

 destruction of the fish called ale wives, in their passage up the rivers 

 and streams in the town of Harwich, in the county of Barnstable," 

 and also of another act in addition thereto, passed the sixteenth day 

 of June, eighteen hundred and thirteen, be, and both the said acts 

 are extended to operate, and shall have effect over all the streams in 

 the town of Brewster ; and all the regulations, provisions, privileges, 

 limitations and restrictions contained in the said act to which this is 

 in addition, so far as they may be applicable to the intents and pur- 

 poses of this act, shall be used and exercised, and the benefits thereof 

 enjoyed by the inhabitants of the said town of Brewster, as fully and 

 completely as if the said town of Brewster had not been separated 

 from the said town of Harwich ; and this act shall be deemed and 

 taken to be supplementary to the said act before mentioned. — [Feb- 

 ruary 12, 1814. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 353.] 

 An Act to regulate the Fishery in Aggawam or Westfield River. 



1813, 147. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, any person or persons who shall draw a seine or drag- 

 net within thirty rods of the lower side of the dam or race-way at 

 White's mills, on Aggawam River, in the town of West Springfield, 

 for the purpose of catching shad, alewives or other fish, shall, for each 

 , and every offence, forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each time 

 he or they shall so draw said seine, together with the forfeiture of the 

 boat and seine. 



