INLAND FISHERIES. 275 



An Act for the preservation of Fish in Buzzard's Bay, within the Towns of Sandwich 



and Wareham. 



1856, 176. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall set, draw or stretch an}- seine or net, for the purpose of taking 

 an}' fish, except bhie fish, in the ba3's, harbors, ponds, rivers or creeks, 

 of the waters of Buzzard's Ba}', within one mile from the shore, and 

 within the jurisdiction of the towns of Sandwich and Wareham. 



Sect. 2. From the first day of April to the first day of July 

 inclusive, it shall be unlawful for an}^ person to take more than one 

 hundred pounds per week of lobster, tautog, bass or scuppaug, within 

 the waters aforesaid. 



Sect. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act, or either 

 of them, shall be subject to a penalty of not more than fifty dollars, 

 oneli alf to the complainant and the remainder to the towns in whose 

 jurisdiction the offence was committed. 



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

 recovered in an action of contract, or an action of tort, in any court 

 proper to try the same, upon complaint of the selectmen or any legal 

 voter of the towns of Sandwich or Wareham. 



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

 [May 24, 1856. 



Ax Act to incorporate the Farm Pond Fishing Company, in Edgartown. 



1856, 211. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Elijah Nor- 

 ton, Benjamin Davis and Orlando E. Davis, their associates, succes- 

 sors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the 

 " Farm Pond Fishing Company, in Edgartown," in Dukes Count}', 

 and are empowered to close the present outlet of said pond and to 

 make another outlet at such place as they may select, through the 

 lands of said proprietors to the Vineyard Sound, for the purpose of 

 creating a herring fishery. 



Sect. 2. The aforesaid corporation are hereby empowered, by 

 seines, nets or otherwise, to take herring from the waters of the said 

 pond, or the outlet thereof, at such times as a majority of the pro- 

 prietors at a legal meeting may direct. 



Sect. 3. If any person shall set, stretch or drag a seine or net in 

 said pond or outlet thereof, except as above provided, without the 

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

 company the sum of ten dollars for each offence, and an additional 

 sum of ten dollars for each and every barrel of herring so taken, to 

 be recovered in any court proper to try the same : x>i'Ovided, however, 

 that nothing in this act shall prevent any person from taking any 

 other fish from said pond. 



Sect. 4. The present owners of lauds adjoining the said pond, 



