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across Charles River, at their works in Newton and Waltham, being 

 the same mill-dam which formerlj' was owned and occupied by John 

 IJoies ; and may keep the same shut forever : provided, that said 

 company, their successors and assigns, shall make and continue in 

 good repair, a fish- way over said dam, of the same inclination and 

 width, and admitting the same depth of water, as that now made over 

 the lower dam across said river in Watertown, near Watertown 

 bridge, and shall keep the same open from the first day of April to 

 the first day of June annually. — [June l-i, 1814, 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 290.] 



An Act for further regulating the Fishery in Mattepoisett River, in the Town of 



Rochester. 



1814, 99. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, the inhabitants of the town of Rochester, at any 

 meeting legally warned for that purpose, may prohibit the taking any 

 of the fish called alewives, in Mattepoisett River in said town, for the 

 present year, excepting at one place therein, to be by them appointed 

 in said meeting ; and may also, by their vote in such meeting, estab- 

 lish such mode of taking said fish at such place, as tbey shall think 

 proper. 



Sect. 2, Be it further enacted. That the said inhabitants, at such 

 meeting, may appoint some person or persons to take said fish in 

 such place for such year (not exceeding three days in a week) for the 

 use of said inhabitants, to be disposed of in such way and manner 

 as the}^ in such meeting, by vote shall agree upon. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons who 

 shall be so appointed, or any person who shall purchase the exclusive 

 right of taking said fish at any place in said river, according to the 

 laws now in force for that purpose, shall not conform to the rules and 

 regulations for them respectively established by said inhabitants, 

 such person or persons shall for each breach of such rules and regula- 

 tions, forfeit and pay to said inhabitants twenty-five dollars, to be re- 

 covered in an action of debt, in any court proper to try the same. — 

 [February 10, 1815. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 269.] 

 An Act in addition to an Act entitled " An Act empowering the Town of Pemhroke to 

 regulate and order the taking and disposing of the Fish called Alewives, within the 

 limits of said Town." 



1814, 128. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That no person or persons 

 shall set, draw or cast any seine, drag or set net of any dimensions 

 whatever, in the North River, so called, in the county of Plymouth, 

 except from sun's rising to the sun's setting of the Monday's, Wednes- 

 days and Fridays of each week ; and that no person or persons shall. 



