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ninth, b}' the land of John Thurber ; tenth, by the land of John 

 Watson ; eleventh, by the land of Dexter Barney ; the wears to be 

 situated on either side of the rivers, as the purchaser may determine, 

 the distance between each wear to be not less than twent}^ rods. 



Sect, 4. The town of Rehoboth, at their annual meeting in March 

 or April, ma}' choose one or more suitable persons to serve as fish- 

 wardens, who, when sworn, shall see this act enforced, and may 

 prosecute for all violations thereof. 



Sect. 5. If any person shall fish with seine or net in any time, 

 place or manner other than as before mentioned, or shall set any net 

 or seine, weir or any other obstruction in said river, or in any part 

 thereof, with the intent to take or destroy an}' shad or alewives, he 

 shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered 

 to the use of the county in which the offence was committed, or by 

 action of debt, one half to the person prosecuting for the same, and 

 the other half for the use of the town in which the offence shall be 

 committed. 



Sect. 6. All laws heretofore relating to fishing in Palmer's River 

 in the town of Rehoboth, are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 



[March 7, 1844. 



[1852, 92 ] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 353 ; 1838, 19 ] 



An Act in addition to an Act for the preservation of the Fish called Alewives in Aga- 

 wam and Half-way Pond Rivers in the County of Plymouth. 



1844,65. Be it enacted, efc, as foUotvs: Sect. 1. The town of 

 Plymouth may choose their fish-committee at their annual town meet- 

 ing in March or April, in each year, which committee, when so elected, 

 shall have all the powers and duties which they would have had if 

 elected in November, anything in the act to which this is in addition 

 to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 



[March 7, 1844. 



[1853, 377.] 



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



Ax Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Ale wive Fishery in the River and Stream 



in the Town of Harwich. 



1844, 67. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: vSect. 1. The time 

 during which the sluice is required, in the second section of the act of 

 July fourth, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, to which 

 this is in addition, to be kept open in the dams across Herring River 

 in the town of Harwich, is hereby extended from the twenty-fifth day 

 of April to the twentieth day of June, in each year, and the penalties 



