INLAND FISHERIES. 1«9 



and forfeitures ma^' be recoverable, with legal costs of suit, by action 

 of debt or infornialion, before any justice of the peace for the county 

 of Barnstable ; and any person or persons aggrieved b}' the sentence 

 of the justice of the peace, given in pursuance of this act, may appeal 

 therefrom to the next court of common pleas, to be holden in the 

 county in which judgment ma}' be rehdered. — [February 15, 1826. 



[1824, 76.] 



Ax Act in addition to an Act entitled "An Act regulating the Taking of Fisli in the 

 Town of Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth." 



1825, 74. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act it shall not be lawful for the town of Bridgewater, or 

 the inhabitants thereof, to catch the fish called shad and alewives in 

 Titicut River, so called, which forms the boundary line between the 

 said town of Bridgewater and the town of Middleborough, below the 

 point where Newmasket River empties into the said Titicut River, or 

 within twenty rods above that point, anything in the act to which this 

 is in addition to the contrary notwithstanding. — [Februarj^ 15, 1826. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 191.] 



An Act to regulate the Passage- Ways for Fish in Ipswich River, within the Town of 



Ipswich. 



1825, 78. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That instead of the passage- 

 ways now required by law to be kept open at Warner's mill-dam and 

 the dam at Farley's mill, in Ipswich, the owners of said dams, their 

 successors and assigns, shall make and continue in good repair a fish- 

 way over said dams, at the northerly' end of the same, of the following 

 description and dimensions : said fish-waj-s to be made either with wood 

 or stone, beginning at the top of the dams, five feet in width and one 

 foot in depth, and to admit of not less than six inches of water over 

 the dam into said ways, and thence running down stream twenty feet, 

 and terminating at seven feet in width, with stoppers on each side, of 

 plank or stone, running not more than half way across said passage- 

 ways, within two feet of each other ; and said head shall be kept open 

 and in good repair at all times from the tenth day of April to the first 

 day of June in each year. 



Sect. 2. Be it f^irther enacted, That so long as the owners of 

 said dams shall keep open said course or passage-ways, and in good 

 repair, in manner aforesaid, the}' shall not be subject to an}' of the 

 penalties or restrictions of any law regulating the passage of fish in 

 Ipswich River. — [February 15, 1826. 



[1829, 40.] 



