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making the complaint, and three-quarters of the same to be paid to 

 the towns of Marshfleld, Scituate and South Scituate, in the propor- 

 tion to the number of their inhabitants bj' tlie census last taken. 



Sect. 2. No person or persons shall take fish from the stream 

 leading from said North River to the said Indian Ponds or streams 

 tributar}- to the North River, excepting at the weir before mentioned, 

 at any time between the tenth 6ny of April and the fifteenth of May 

 inclusive, of each 3'ear, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each 

 and every oflTence, which shall be paid as follows : one half of the 

 twenty dollars to the complainant, and the other half to the said 

 town of Pembroke. • 



Sect. 3. It shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the several towns 

 situated on said North River, to take fish with ten seines onl}', in the 

 manner following, to wit : the towns of Pembroke, Scituate and 

 South Scituate, shall each have the right of disposing at pi^blic 

 auction, for their own benefit, of the privilege of catching fish with 

 two seines only, and the town of Marsh field shall have the right of 

 disposing at public auction, for their own benefit, of the privilege of 

 catching fish with four seines onl}-, in the river aforesaid. 



Sect, 4. An}' person or persons who may by seine or mesh-nets, 

 take fish from the said North River, except such persons as have 

 authoiity under this act, shall each forfeit and pay for each and every 

 time they so trespass, the sum of twenty dollars to the town wiih'n 

 whose limits the same were taken. 



Sect. o. The proprietors of any and all mills located on the 

 North River, and streams leading from said North River to the said 

 Indian Ponds, so called, in the county of Plymouth, shall take up the 

 wastewa^-s of said mills in each year, on or before the tenth day of 

 April, and keep the same up to the fifteenth day of May following, 

 that the fish shall not be obstructed in their passage to the said Indian 

 Ponds from the said North River ; and in the neglect or failure of a 

 proprietor of any mill to take up the waste-ways, so called, and keep 

 the same up for the before mentioned time, he shall forfeit and pay 

 for each and every day of such neglect, the sum of one hundred dollars 

 to the towns of Marshfield, Scituate, South Scituate and Pembroke, 

 in the proportion to their number of inhabitants. 



Sect. 6. An}- expense that may accrue in removing obstructions or 

 clearing the streams leading from the North River to the Indian Ponds, 

 for the preservation of the fish, with the exception of taking up the 

 waste-ways of mills, shall be borne by the several towns of Marshfield, 

 Scituate, South Scituate and Pembroke in the proportion to their in- 

 habitants, who are hereby permitted to raise money for the same. 



Sect. 7. All penalties and forfeitures under this act may be 

 recovered in anj- court competent to try the same. 



