258 LAWS RELATING TO 



Sect, 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent witli tliis act are 



hereb}' repealed. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 



FMay 19. 1853. 



[1876, 103.] 



[1813, 147; 1838, 19; 1844,65.] 



An Act in addition to an Act to establish the Fishery iii Agawara and Half-way Ppnd 



llivtrs. 



1853,377. Be it enacted, etc, as follows: Sect. 1. If any person 

 or persons shall use any seine or drag-net for the taking of fish in the 

 Agawam and Half-way Pond Rivers between the first day of March 

 and the first day of October, he or they shall each forfeit and pay to 

 the towns of Plymouth and Warchara twenty dollars for each and 

 every offence ; and shall also forfeit such seine or drag-net, together 

 with such boat or boats as may be used to work the same. 



Sect. 2. All forfeitures under this act shall be collected in the 

 same manner and disposed of in the same way, as forfeitures under 

 the act passed February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty- 

 eic^ht, to which this is in addition. 



Sect. 3. If the committee annually chosen by the towns of Plym- 

 outh and Wareham, shall fail by neglect or disagreement to fix the 

 time and prescribe the manner in which the owner or occupier of any 

 dam on said rivers shall open a sufficient passage for said fish through 

 said dam, then and in that case, the committee of either town, who 

 may feel aggrieved thereby, may apply to the county commissioners, 

 of the county of Plymouth, who, after due notice to the committee of 

 the other town, shall have the same power now vested in said com- 

 mittee to fix the time and prescribe the manner in which the owner or 

 occupier of any dam on said rivers shall open a sufficient passage for 

 said fish through said dam ; and the owner or occupier of any dam on 

 said rivers, who shall fail to comply with the order of said commis- 

 sioners therein, shall be liable to the same penalties as they are now 

 liable to for failing to comply with the order of said committee, to be 

 recovered in like manner. And said county commissioners shall have 

 the same power which said committee now possess, to open said dam 

 when neglected as aforesaid. And if either of the county commis- 

 sioners shall reside in either of the towns of Plymouth or Wareham, 

 his place shall be supplied by one of the special commissioners not 

 resident in either of said towns. 



Sect. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take eff'ect from and after its passage. — 



[May 19, 1853. 



•- '' [1860,89; 1863, 117.J 



