246 LAWS RELATING TO 



An Act to incorporate the Wequabsqua Fishing Company. 



1850, 99. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Charles 

 Weeks, Samuel T. Hancock, Moses A. Ma3-hew, Tristram Allen, 

 Calvin O. Adams and others, their associates and successors, pro- 

 prietors of the lands adjoining a pond, situated in the south part of 

 the town of Chilmark, known by the name of Chilmark Pond, are 

 hereby made a corporation by the name of the Wequabsqua Fishing 

 Compan}', for the purpose of taking fish in the limits hereinafter 

 specified ; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privi- 

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

 contained in the fort^'-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, passed 

 on the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and 

 thirty-five. 



Sect. 2. All persons who are proprietors of the lands as aforesaid, 

 shall have the right to become members, bear the expenses and share 

 the profits, of the company, in like proportion as was the estimated 

 value of their several meadows, according to the valuation of the 

 commissioners of sewers, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 

 fort3'-eight, to the value of the whole. 



Sect. 3. The said company are hereby empowered to maintain a 

 creek or canal from said pond, across the neck of land called Wequab- 

 squa, to the sea, with the exclusive privilege and control of the fisljery 

 in said creek and so much of the pond as lies within ten rods from the 

 head of the creek, and also so much of the sea or ocean from high- 

 water mark, as lies within the distance of fifty rods from the mouth 

 of said creek. 



Sect. 4. If an}'^ person, in violation of the by-laws of said com- 

 pany shall take, catch or destroy any fish within the limits named in 

 the preceding section, he shall forfeit and pa}'^ for each offence, a sum 

 not exceeding twent}^ dollars nor less than five dollars, one half to 

 the complainant and the other half to the town of Chilmark. 



Sect. 5. Either of the persons named in the first section of this 

 act, is hereby authorized to call the first meeting of the company, by 

 causing a notification, stating the time and place of meeting and the 

 business to be acted upon, to be published in the " Vinej^ard Gazette," 

 a newspaper printed in the town of Edgartown or b}^ giving notice to 

 each proprietor. 



Sect. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [March 20, 1850. 



[1815, 83.] 

 An Act concerning the Alewive Fishery in the Town of Dennis. 



1850, 148. Be it enacted, etc., as folloios : Sect. 1. So much of 

 an act passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, in the j'ear one 



