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Mills, in the said town, which committee shall prescribe and make 

 known the time, not exceeding five days in each week, and the man- 

 ner and place or places where the said fish ma}' be taken by all the 

 inhabitants of the said town, and the said committee shall have and 

 exercise all the powers and duties which, b}' the act to which this is 

 in addition, are placed in the selectmen of the said town. 



Sect. 2. The time during which the said fish shall be so taken b}' 

 the inhabitants of the said town, and during which the occupants or 

 owners of dams across the said river shall be required to keep open 

 and maintain the passage-ways over or around their respective dams, 

 shall not exceed thirty days in each year; and nothing contained in 

 this act, or the act to which this is in addition, shall be so construed 

 as to affect the legal rights of any person. 



Sect. 3. The first and fifth sections of the act to which this is in 

 addition, and all other parts of the said act which are inconsistent with 

 the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. — [May 7, 1851. 



[1848, 185.] 



An Act in addition to " An Act to incorporate the Pocha Pond Meadow and Fishing 



Company in Edgartown." 



1851, 126. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. If any per- 

 son not a proprietor of this corporation, shall receive damages by the 

 flowing of his meadows, or in the closing of the present outlet 

 of Pocha Pond, the county commissioners of Dukes County, after 

 the hearing of all parties interested, shall estimate the amount of 

 damage such persons may have sustained by the said corporation and 

 also the benefits, if any, such persons may derive by the flowing of 

 his meadows or in closing the present outlet ; which damages, if any, 

 after deducting therefrom the benefits, said corporation shall pay : 

 and either party if dissatisfied with any estimate made by the said 

 commissioners, may apply for a jury to assess the damages, either at 

 the same meeting at which such estimates shall be completed and 

 returned, or at the next regular meeting thereof, and the like proceed- 

 ings shall be had thereon as are provided for the recovery of damages 

 for laying out highways. 



Sfxt. 2. The fourth section of an act entitled " An Act to incor- 

 porate the Pocha Pond Meadow and Fishing Company," passed on 

 the twenty-fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred 

 and forty-eight is hereby repealed. 



Secp. 3. This act shall take eflfect from and after its passage. — 

 [May 7, 1851. 



[1856. 45.] 



