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on said days, by boats, seines, drag-nets, or by any other mode, in 

 the North River, drive any fish into any seine, set net or other recep- 

 tacle, by which fish may be taken ; and all seines, drag or set nets 

 cast into said river on the days mentioned in this act, shall be re- 

 stricted from sweeping in said river, further than can be done b}' con- 

 fining one end of said seine to the bank of the river aforesaid ; and 

 no seine, drag or set net shall be set, drawn or cast into said river, 

 above what is commonly called and known by the name of the Third 

 Herring Brook, or Smelt Brook ; and no seine used in said river shall 

 exceed the width of the river wh^re it is used, on the penalty of fifty 

 dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered and appropriated 

 in the manner provided for in the act to which this is in addition. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted^ That the act supplementary to an 

 act regulating the taking and disposing of the fish called alewives, in 

 the town of Pembroke, passed June the twenty-fifth, one thousand 

 eight hundred and eleven, and the ninth section of an act entitled 

 ' ' An Act empowering the town of Pembroke to regulate and order 

 the taking and disposing of the fish called alewives, within the limits 

 of the said town," be and the same are hereb}' repealed. — [February 

 25, 1815. 



[1806, 117.] 

 An Act for regulating the Fishery in the Towns of Salem and Danvers. 



1814,129. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That all the provisions for the 

 preservation of fish called shad,* and for regulating the taking the 

 same, contained in an act entitled " An Act for the preservation of 

 the fish called alewives, in their passage up the rivers and sti'eams 

 leading through the towns of Salem and Danvers, in the county of 

 Essex, and for regulating the taking said fish in said streams, and for 

 repealing all laws heretofore passed for regulating the fishery in said 

 streams and rivers," shall be and hereby are extended to the fish 

 called shad ; and the fish committees of the said towns of Danvers and 

 Salem shall hereafter have the same powers, authority and privileges, 

 and be subject to the same duties for the preservation and taking 

 shad, as they now have and are subject to for the preservation and 

 taking of alewives. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said fish committees, or 

 either of them, shall be and they are herel)y empowered to make and 

 open a sluice-way in the brook running from Spring Pond, so called, 

 and to keep and maintain the same open, and without obstruction, 



* This provision, though apparently erroneous by inserting " shad " instead of " ale- 

 wives," is correctly transcribed from the original roll. The petition prayed for the exten- 

 sion to shad of the provisions of the existing law in relation to alewives. 



By this inadvertence in drawing and engrossing the bill, the provision itself is rendered 

 wholly inoperative. — Ed. 



