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complete the improvements provided for in this act, within three 

 3'ears from the passage thereof, then the same shall be void and of no 

 effect. —[March 3, 1842. 



[1881, 46.] 



An Act to incorporate the Coy's Brook Fishing Company, in Harwich. 



1842,82. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Seth Paine, 

 Heman Bassett, William Field, their associates and successors, are 

 hereb}' made a corporation b}' the name of the Coy's Brook Fishing- 

 Company, in Harwi(.'h, in the count}' of Barnstable and are hereby 

 empowered to open said brook, commencing at the point where it 

 empties into Herring River ; thence up said brook to Co3''s Pond (so 

 called) ; tbence througli the bridge, swamp and land of Nathan Ellis 

 and others, to the valley swamp ; thence across the highway to Brier's 

 Pond ; thence through a swamp to Eldridge's Pond ; thence from said 

 Eldridge's Pond, to terminate in the Long Pond, — for the purpose 

 of carrying on the herring fisher}' therein and to regulate the same ; 

 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 

 thirt3'-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. Jf any person, without the permission of said corpora- 

 tion, shall take, catch or haul on shore an}' herring in said ponds or 

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

 not exceeding three dollars ; and if the quantit}' be more than one 

 barrel, the person so oflfending shall forfeit and pa}^ for each barrel of 

 fish so taken, the sum of five dollars, to be recovered in an}^ court 

 proper to trj' the same. 



Sect. 3. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the said com- 

 pany to take or use the private propert}^ of an}' person without his 

 consent. 



Sect. 4. All persons who now are or may hereafter be owners of 

 land adjoining said Coy's Brook or ponds may become members of 

 said corporation ; subject, however, to pay their proportional part 

 of the expenses which shall have been incurred by said corporation 

 before the time of their admission. — [March 3, 1842. 



1843. 



An Act concerning Alewives in Herring River, in the Town of Barnstable. 



1843, 20. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. The selectmen 

 of the town of Barnstable, for the time being, or a major part of them, 

 are hereby empowered, in the month of February, March or April 

 annually, to prescribe the time, place or places and manner of taking 

 alewives in Herring River, by the name of Marston's Mills, Herring 

 River, in the town of Barnstable, such time not to exceed five days 



