268 LAWS RELATING TO 



Ax Act to authorize the Town of Nantucket to regulate the Fisheries in all the Ponds, 

 Creeks and Harbors in the County of Nantucicet. 



1855, 337. Be it enacted, etc., as foHows: SECfc. 1. The town 

 of Nantucket is hereby authorized aad empowered, at any legal 

 meeting of the inhabitants of said town, to make such by-laws as may 

 be deemed expedient to preserve and protect the iisheries in all the 

 ponds and creeks within the county of Nantucket : provided, such by- 

 laws do not infringe on the rights of any person. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. — 

 [May 15, 1855. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 313, 3.54, 422; vol. 2, pp. 192, 381, 469; vol. 3. appendix, p. 20. 

 181.5, 111, 119; 1818, 106; 1819, 133, 137; 1822, 38; 1829, 5o; 1832, 44, 120; 183J, 137; 

 1843, 73 ; 1844, 62. 



An Act to regulate the Fisheries in Taunton Great River and the Newmasket River. 



1855, 401. Be it enacted, etc., as follows; Sect 1. From and 

 after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for an}' person or 

 persons to catch shad or alewives in an}' manner, in Taunton Great 

 River or in Newmasket River, from the first day of March to the 

 tenth day of June, including both of said days in each year, except 

 as hereinafter provided in this act. 



Sect. 2. The several cities and towns hereafter in this section 

 named, shall annually, in legal meeting to be held for that purpose, 

 on or before the fifteenth day of November in each year, sell at public 

 auction, to the highest bidder who shall give satisfactory security for 

 the payment therefor, for the benefit of said cities and towns respec- 

 tively, the privilege of taking shad and alewives in Taunton Great 

 River, between the days aforesaid and including those days, in the 

 year next succeeding such sale, with the number of seines following : 

 the city of Fall River and town of Freetown may each sell the privi- 

 lege of fishing with one seine for the purpose aforesaid ; the towns of 

 Somerset, Dighton, Berkley and Raynham may each sell the privilege 

 of fishing with two seines for the purpose aforesaid ; and the town of 

 Taunton may sell the privilege of fishing with three seines for the 

 purpose aforesaid, which privileges of fishing shall be sold separately, 

 and the purchaser or purchasers thereof may locate and use the privi- 

 lege or privileges by him or them obtained at any such sale, at any 

 place upon Taunton Great River which he or they may select or pro- 

 cure, with the consent of the owner or owners of the shore on which 

 such location or locations may be made. 



Sect. 3. No seine that shall be used for the purpose of fishing in 

 said Taunton Great River in the towns of said Taunton and Raynham, 

 and in the towns of Berkley and Dighton above Rocky Point, shall be 

 more than twenty rods in length ; and no seine that shall be used for 



