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which such location shall be made, on or before the first daj- of March 

 in each _year hereafter. And the purchaser or purchasers so locating 

 said privileges shall have the right to catch shad and alewives in Taun- 

 ton Great River for the time named in the first and fifth sections of 

 this act, at their respective locations to be made as aforesaid, and no 

 other persons except the assistants of such purchaser or purchasers. 



Sect. 7. No person shall set any seine, net, weir or other hin- 

 drance or obstructions in or across said river or any part thereof, or 

 in an}' of the waters connected therewith, except in the mouth of 

 Broad Cove, so called, in the* towns of Dighton and Somerset ; nor 

 shall an}' person at an}' place on said waters, drive or pursue with any 

 boat or boats, contrary to the intent and meaning of said act, any 

 shad or alewives ; nor shall any person beat or whip the said waters 

 with any instrument or thing, or throw into said waters any earth or 

 other substance or thing whereby said fish shall be hindered, dis- 

 turbed, destroyed, driven or delayed, during the time named in the 

 first section of this act. And if any person shall be found fishing 

 with any seine, net or other instrument, contrary to the provisions of 

 this act, and if any person shall be found having or conveying away 

 in any building, boat or vessel, or in any cart or other A'ehicle, any 

 fish taken in violation of the provisions of this act, knowing the same 

 to be so taken, it shall be lawful for any fish-warden, chosen in pursu- 

 ance of the ninth section of this act, to enter any such building and 

 take to his own use all such fish and any such seine, net or other in 

 strument, any such boat, vessel, cart or other vehicle, without any 

 warrant other than is given by the provisions of this section. 



Sect. 8. The inhabitants of the towns of Sliddleborough and 

 Lakeville shall have the whole control and management of the fisher- 

 ies on the Newmasket River, and shall have the right to catch, by 

 their committees or their agents duly chosen in legal meetings, or to 

 sell the right of catching, shad or alewives by set-nets or dip-nets, 

 during the time named in the first section of this act, at any three 

 places within the limits of said towns, to be designated for each year 

 by said towns in legal meetings, each of such rights to be used only 

 from four o'clock on Monday morning to nine o'clock on Friday even- 

 ing of each week, and at no other time or places during the period 

 named in said first section. And the net proceeds of such fishery or 

 sales shall be divided between the said towns of Middleborough and 

 Lakeville, in proportion to the number of ratable polls in each re- 

 spectively, and the respective parts of such proceeds shall be disposed 

 of by said towns respectively in such manner and for such purposes as 

 each town shall for itself determine and direct. 



Sect. 9. The several towns aforesaid, at their annual meetings in 

 the months of March or April, and the mayor and aldermen of any 



