226 LAWS RELATING TO 



o'clock on Friday morning ; the purchaser or purchasers of the privi- 

 lege or privileges, which shall be located in the towns of Berkley- and 

 Dighton, below Rock}- Point, shall have the right to sweep with a 

 seine or net thirty-four rods in length and no more, five da^-s in each 

 week, beginning at four o'clock on Monday morning and ending at 

 four o'clock on Saturday morning ; and the purchaser or purchasers 

 of the privilege or privileges, which shall be located in either of the 

 towns of Somerset, Freetown or Fall River, shall have a right to 

 sweep with a seine or net forty rods in length and no more, beginning 

 at four o'clock on Monda}' morning and ending at four o'clock on Fri- 

 day- morning; and provi< led, also, that each of said towns shall, at a 

 legal meeting between the first daj' of September and the last day of 

 December in each 3'ear, dispose and make sale of, at public auction, 

 for the next 3'ear, and so from 3-ear to 3'ear, their privilege of catching 

 shad and alewives with seines or nets in the river aforesaid, for the 

 time aforesaid, to such person or persons as shall offer tlie most f ir 

 the same, and give sufficient security for the payment of the purchase 

 moneys at such time and in such manner as the respective towns shall 

 order. 



Sect. 2. The several purchasers of the privileges aforesaid, shoU 

 select the place where they intend to use their seine or net, for the 

 purpose of catching shad and alewives and shall file a certificate 

 thereof with the clerk of the town within which they have determined 

 to exercise their said privilege as aforesaid, on or before the first da^' 

 ■of March in each j-ear : provided, that the privilege which shall be 

 purchased of the said town of Somerset, shall be exercised within the 

 limits of said town, and the person or persons so purchasing and 

 locating the privileges aforesaid, shall have the right to catch shad 

 and alewives in the river aft>resaid, for the time aforesaid and no 

 ■other persons. 



Sect. 3- No purchasers of a privilege aforesaid, shall make use of 

 a seine or net for the purpose aforesaid, at any other place on said 

 river tlian the place so selected and certified as aforesaid, duiing the 

 time afores:>id, and no seine or net shall be located or swept within 

 one mile of the dam located near King's Bridge, across Taunton Great 

 River, in the town of R;iynhara ; and no seine or net shall be located 

 or swept within one and a half miles of the said dara, in the town of 

 Taunton, and no seine or net shall be swept more than fort\' rods on 

 said river, above Rocky Point and not more than forty-five rods in 

 length below Rocky Point, and no person shall be permitted to set 

 an}' seine, net, wear or other obstructions in or across said river, for 

 the purpose of taking shad or alewives or obstructing their passage 

 along said river, during the time aforesaid. 



Sect. 4. If any person or persons shall draw or sweep with any 



