INLAND FISHERIES. 245 



1850. 



[1833, 211; 1855, 156; 1858, 95.] 

 An Act for the protection of the Fisheries in the vicinity of Nantucket. 



18r)0, 6. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: Sect. 1. From and after 

 the first clay of Jul}^ next it shall not be lawful for any person or per- 

 sons to take any fish b}' seining, within one nolle from the shores of 

 Nantucket, Tuckernuck, Smith's, Muskeeket and Gravel Islands. 



Sect. 2. The provisions of the sixteenth section of the fifty-fifth 

 chapter of the Revised Statutes in regard to the town of Chatham, 

 shall be and the same are hereby extended to the town of Nantucket. 



Sect. 3. Any person violating any provisions of this act, shall 

 forfeit and pa}' for each offence the sum of fift}- dollars. 



Sect. 4. The said town of Nantucket is hereby authorized to 

 choose, at the annual town meeting or at any meeting duly warned 

 for that purpose, such number of fish-wardens as may at the time be 

 deemed necessary, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of 

 their duty, whose duty it shall be to prosecute for every offence against 

 any provisions of this act. 



Sect. 5. If any boat or craft be found within or without the limits 

 aforenamed with fish of any kind on board, taken within said limits 

 contrary to the provisions of this act, it sliall be the duty of said fish- 

 wardens to seize such boat or craft, and detain the same not exceed- 

 ing forty-eight hours, in order that the same may be attached or 

 arrested by due process of law, for the better security of the payment 

 of the penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, together 

 with the costs of the suit : provided, however, that as soon as the 

 master or owner of such boat or craft shall pay such penalty to the 

 treasurer of the town of Nantucket (if he pay the same before being 

 sued therefor) , such boat or craft shall be discharged, with the effects 

 therein. 



Sect. 6. All fines and penalties recovered and received by virtue 

 of this act, shall go, one-half to the treasurer of Nantucket, for the 

 use of said town, the other half to the complainant ; and said for- 

 feitures, fines or penalties may be recovered, together with legal 

 costs of suit, by an action of debt, in any court of record proper to 



try the same. — [February 5, 1850. 



[1870, 284.] 



An Act to incorporate the Great Marsh Dyking, Water-Power and Fishing Company. 

 1850,73. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: * * * Sect. 4. Said 

 corporation shall have the exclusive ownership of any herring or other 

 fisher}' created in consequence of the location of said d^'ke, together 

 with the right of regulating such fisheries and taking the fish therein, 

 to their own exclusive use, * * * — [March 14, 1850. 



