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their successors and assigns, are hereby exclusively empowered, by 

 seines, nets, or any other fishing apparatus, at any time between the 

 first day of March and the first day of July in each year, to take 

 herrings from the waters of Pocha or Capepoge Ponds, in said Edgar- 

 town, or an}' of the outlets thereof. 



Sect. 2. If an}- person shall set, stretch or drag a seine or net in 

 said pond, or the outlets thereof, or shall in any manner catch, or 

 attempt to catch herrings therein, except as above provided, without 

 the consent of the said company, he shall forfeit and pa^^ to the use 

 of the aforesaid company the sum of twenty dollars for each offence, 

 and an additional sum of twenty dollars for each and every barrel of 

 herrings so taken. 



Sect. 3. If any person shall iu any way hinder or prevent the 

 herrings from passing through any or either of the aforesaid ponds, 

 or the outlets thereof, during the period aforesaid, he shall for each 

 and every oflfence forfeit and pay to the use of said compan}' the sum 

 of one hundred dollars. 



Sect. 4. The penalties above provided for may be sued for and 

 recovered in an action of debt, or an act of trespass in the case, in 

 any court proper to tr}' the same. 



Sect. 5. The proprietors of the aforesaid corporation ma}" increase 

 the number of shares to sixteen. 



Sect. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions 

 of this act, are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [March 11, 1856. 



[Sp. LaAvs, vol. 3, p. 5.] 



An Act to protect the Fisheries in Ipswich River, in the towns of Hamilton, Wenham, 



Topsfield, Boxfordand Middleton. 



1856, 52. Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall set, stretch or draw any seine or drag-net in any of the waters 

 in Ipswich River, within the limits of the towns of Hamilton, Wen- 

 ham, Topsfield, Boxford and Middleton. 



Sect. 2. Any person who shall oflfend against the provision of 

 section first of this act, shall for each and every offence forfeit the 

 sum of one hundred dollars, one half thereof to the use of the com- 

 plainant, and the other half to the town where the offence was com- 

 mitted. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [March 15, 1856. 



An Act to regulate the Construction of Fish-Weirs. 

 1856, 50. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The mayor or 

 aldermen of any city, and the selectmen of the several towns lying 



