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the town of Edgartowii, excepting English herring, menhaden and 

 mackerel : provided, however, that this act shall not have force or 

 etfect to restrain the taking of fish in the manner aforesaid, in auj' 

 place more than one mile from the limits of said town, nor within the 

 limits of the harbor of Holmes' Hole. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That if an}' person or persons shall vio- 

 late the provisions of this act, each person so offending, for each and 

 every such offence, shall, on conviction thereof, pa^' a fine not exceed- 

 ing ten dollars nor less than one dollar, if the quantity of fish so 

 taken is less than one barrel, but if the quantitj' shall be one barrel 

 or more, such person or persons so oflfending shall forfeit and pa}- for 

 each and every barrel of fish so taken, the sum of five dollars. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That all forfeitures and fines which 

 shall be incurred by virtue of this act shall be recovered, the one half 

 to the use of him or them who shall first sue for the same, and the 

 other half to the use of the town of Edgartown, with legal costs of 

 suit, b)'^ action of debt in any court proper to try the same. — [Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1827. 



[1851, 77 ; 1856, 285.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 224; 1814, 162; 1815, 56.] 

 A?f Act to unite the Watertown and Brighton Fislieries in Charles River, and for the 



Regulation and Management thereof. 



1826, 76. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the several fisheries 

 described in an act made and passed on the first day of March, in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled 

 "An Act to regulate the shad and alewive fishery in the town of 

 Brighton," and an act made and passed the third day of February, in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen [^six- 

 teen'], entitled " An Act to regulate the shad and alewive fishery in the 

 town of Watertown," shall be united and hereafter constitute one 

 fishery ; and the right, franchise and property of said fisheries thus 

 united shall belong to and be owned by said towns, in the propor- 

 tions following, that is to say : seven tenth parts thereof by the town 

 of Watertown, and three tenth parts thereof by the town of Brighton. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the well ordering and 

 good management of said fishery, there shall, as soon after the pass- 

 ing of this act as may be, and thereafter annually in the mouth of 

 January, be appointed by the selectmen of the town of Watertown for 

 the time being, three discreet and disinterested inhabitants of that 

 town, and by the selectmen of Brighton two of their inhabitants of 

 like character, who shall continue in office for the space of one 3'ear 

 from the date of their appointment, and until others shall be appointed 

 in their places, but subject to removal at any time by the respective 

 selectmen of said towns, and they shall be denominated the fish-wai-dens 



