252 LAWS RELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 3, p. 378; 1819, 11; 1820, 51; 1836, 130; 1837, 184; 1844, 63.] 

 An Act to regulate the Fishery in Palmer's River. 



1852, 92. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: Sect. 1. From and after 

 the passage of this act, no person, except as is hereinafter provided, 

 shall take shad or alewives with seines or in nets in Palmer's River 

 in the town of Rehobotb, in the county of Bristol, from the first da3- 

 of April to the first day of July in each j^ear : provided, that the 

 inhabitants of Rehoboth ma}', at a legal meeting held for that pur- 

 pose, dispose, at public auction, of the privilege of taking fish fur 

 that year, with scoop-nets and seines only, in said river for the time 

 aforesaid, to such person or persons as ma}' offer the highest price 

 for the same and shall give suflficient security for the payment of the 

 purchase money, at such time and in such manner as the town shall 

 direct. 



Sect. 2. The said town may sell said privilege in sections or 

 otherwise as the town ma}- determine, and the purchaser or purcha- 

 sers of anj' privilege or privileges of taking shad or alewives aforesaid, 

 or those emploj-ed by him or them, maj' take any of said fish in said 

 river between Swanze}' line and the Orleans Dam, with scoop-nets, 

 three nights in the week, beginning on Wednesdaj' at sunset and end- 

 ing on Saturday at sunrise, of each week ; and may also take said fish 

 with not more than two seines to be used at the same time, and iu tlie 

 daytime onl}', three daj'S in each week, beginning on Thursday morn- 

 ing at sunrise and ending on Saturday at sunset, in any part of said 

 river between Swanzey line and Miller's Bridge, so called, on said 

 river in said Rehoboth : provided, however, that no shad or alewives 

 shall be taken in any manner from said river after the first day of 

 July in each 3-ear. 



Sect. 3. The town of Rehoboth, at their annual meeting in March 

 or April, may choose one or more suitable persons to serve as fish- 

 wardens, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties, 

 and shall see this act enforced, and shall prosecute for all violations 

 thereof; and it shall be the dut}^ of the said fish- wardens to prevent 

 and remove all obstructions in the course of the stream to the passing 

 up and down of the fish during the season, from the first day of April 

 to the first day of Julj- in each year ; and the said wardens or either 

 of them, and also those who are lawfully emploj^ed in catching or 

 buying the fish taken in said river, shall be authorized to go upon and 

 pass over the lands of any person through or by which said river runs 

 without being considered trespassers : provided, the}' shall so pass 

 over or on said lands only at such times and places as the fish-war- 

 dens shall direct and prescribe and only when such passing over and 

 on said lands shall be necessary for the purpose of protecting said 



