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[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 422.] 

 An Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Fishery in Taunton Great River. 



1844, 62. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The purchaser or pur- 

 chasers of the fishing privileges sold b}' the town of Somerset and 

 located within said town, may improve the same at all timos from 

 sunrise on Monday morning to sunset on Saturday evening ; and 

 Broad Cove in Somerset shall be exempted from the operation of the 

 law regulating the fisher}^ on Taunton Great River, anything in the 

 act entitled "An Act to regulate the fishery in Taunton Great River," 

 passed March twenty-fourth, in the year eighteen hundred and forty- 

 three, to the contrary notwithstanding. — [March 6, 1844. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 378; 1837, 184.] 

 An Act to regulate the Fishery in Palmer's River. 



1844, 63. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. From and 

 after passing this act, no person or persons, except as is hereafter 

 provided, shall take shad or alewives with seines or in nets, in Palm- 

 er's River in the town of Rehoboth in the county of Bristol, from the 

 first day of April to the fifteenth day of June in each year : provided, 

 that the inhabitants of Rehoboth may, at a legal meeting held for that 

 purpose, dispose of the privilege, at public auction, of taking shad 

 and alewives, with scoop-nets only, in said river, for the time afore- 

 said, to such person or persons as ma}' offer the highest price for the 

 same and shall give sufficient security of the pa3niient of the purchase 

 money, at such time and in such manner as the town shall order. 



Sect. 2. The said town may sell said privilege in sections, as the 

 town may determine ; and the purchaser or purchasers of any privi- 

 lege or privileges of taking shad or alewives aforesaid, or those em- 

 ployed by him or them, may take an}' of the said fish in said river 

 with scoop-nets, three nights, in the night-time only, in each week, 

 beginning on Monda}' at sunset and ending at sunrise on Thursday, 

 and may take said fish in any part of the river aforesaid, between 

 Swanzoy line and the Orleans Dam on said river in said Rehoboth ; 

 and no person shall be allowed to skim or drive the fish in said river, 

 nor shall any shad or alewives be taken after the fifteenth day of June 

 in each year. 



Sect. 3. The wears in said river shall be located as follows : the 

 first on the river below the end of a fence running from the highway 

 between the land of William K. Bullock, John Davis, 3d, and Ariel 

 Horton (fishing to commence by the land of Joshua Miller) ; second, 

 by the land of Borden Munroe ; third, by the land of Joseph "Watson ; 

 fourth, by the land of Dr. Samuel Bullock ; fifth, by the land of 

 Lovell Bullock ; sixth, by the land of widow Betsey Pierce ; seventh, 

 by the land of Lewis Pierce ; eighth, b}' the land of John M. Davis ; 



