266 LAWS EELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, pp. 222, 289 ; 1847, 94.] 



An Act authorizing the Selectmen of the Town of Falmouth to permit Seines to be 



used in certain Ponds. 



1855, 279. Be it enacted, e'c, as foUoios: Sect. 1. The select- 

 men of the town of Falmouth in the county of Barnstable, and their 

 successors, are herebj' authorized to permit seines to be used at their 

 discretion (said permits to be given in writing), between the first day 

 of December and the following first day of April in each year, in the 

 following ponds, viz. : " Bowman's Pond," " Little Pond" and " Perch 

 Pond." 



Sect. 2. Anj' person or persons detected in using or shooting any 

 seine or seines for the purpose of taking fish in any of the ponds 

 named in the foregoing section, without the permission of the select- 

 men as provided in said section, shall be subject to a fine of not less 

 than five dollars nor more than one hundred for every such offence, to 

 be recovered before any court competent to trj* the same, one half of 

 said fine to accrue to the use of said town, the other half to the person 

 complaining. 



Sect. 3. The selectmen aforesaid shall determine, so far as shall 

 appear to them advisable, in what manner an}' fish taken from said 

 ponds b}^ their permission, shall be disposed of, so far as to secure to 

 the inhabitants of said town of Falmouth a suppl}' of fish so taken. 



Sect. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are 

 hereby repealed. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [May 2, 1855. 



[1839, 83 ; 1848, 47.] 



An Act in addition to "An Act to incorporate Trap's Creek Fishing Company, in 



Edgartown." 



1855, 299. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The owners 

 of Trap's Creek Fishing Company in the town of Edgartown, in the 

 county of Dukes, their associates and successors, are hereby author- 

 ized to catch all kinds of fish by seine or otherwise, in Trap's Pond, 

 from the first day of November to the first day of April, in each year. 



Sect. 2. If a,nj person shall set, stretch or drag a seine in said 

 pond, except as above provided, without the consent of said pro- 

 prietors, he shall forfeit and pa}' to the use of the aforesaid company 

 the sum of twent}' dollars for each offence, and an additional sum for 

 each and every barrel of perch so taken, to be recovered b\' indict- 

 ment, or on complaint before any justice of the peace. 



Sect. 3. No person, whether a proprietor or not, shall be allowed 

 to seine perch in said pond, from the first day of April to the first day 

 of November, in each jesiv. 



