232 LAWS RELATING TO 



Stevens, of Truro, are hereby appointed a committee for the purpose 

 named in the preceding section. 



Sect. 3. Whenever a fish-waj' shall be constructed at said Man- 

 ning's Dam, as ordered by the above committee, all former laws 

 relating to fish-ways at said dam shall be repealed. — [Februar}- 28, 

 1845. 



An Act to incorporate the White Pond Fisbing Company. 



1845, 130. Be it enacted^ etc., as folio ivs : Sect. 1. Henry Kel- 

 ley, John Robbins, Job Chase, their associates and successors, are 

 hereby made a cor{)oration by the name of the AVhite Pond Fishing 

 Compan}', in Harwich, for the purpose of making improvements for 

 the preservation and taking of fish called alewives, in a brook 

 between Herring River, and a pond known as the White Pond, in 

 said Harwich, and fur that purpose shall have all the powers and 

 privileges and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities 

 set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. If an}' person without the permission of said corporation, 

 shall take, catch or haul on shore any of said fish in the brook or the 

 pond from which said brook issues, he shall forfeit and pa}' a fine not 

 exceeding five dollars for each offence, if the quantity so taken be les? 

 than one barrel ; but if the quanlit}' be more than one barrel, such 

 person so off'ending shall forfeit and pay for each barrel of fish so 

 taken, five dollars for the use of said corporation, to be recovered in 

 any court proper to try the same. 



Sect. 3. If an}- damage shall be done by said corporation to the 

 propert}' of any individual not a member of the corporation, such 

 individual shall be entitled to reasonable damage therefor. 



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

 land adjoining said brook or pond, may become members of said cor- 

 poration, subject, however, to pay their proportional part of the ex- 

 pense which shall have been incurred by said corporation, before the 

 time of their admission. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [March 15, 1845. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 238, 512; 1844, 59.] 

 An Act relating to the Fishery in Little River. 



1845, 149. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The fifth 

 section of the act passed on the fourteenth da}' of February, in the 

 year one thousand eight hundred and twent}"-one, is hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Sect. 2. All persons now having a right of fishing with seines in 

 that part of Little River which lies within seventeen rods from its 



