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erwise called Indian Beny or Indian Cockle) or any other poisonous 

 article, whether the same be mixed with anj' other substance or not, 

 on pain that every person so offending shall forfeit and pa}' the sum 

 of ten dollars for every such offence, to be recovered by complaint to 

 an}' justice of the peace in the name and to the use of the Common- 

 wealth, or b}' an action of debt before any such justice, in which case 

 one moiety of said forfeiture shall enure to the use of the plaintiff and 

 the other moiety thereof to the use of the Commonwealth. — [Feb- 

 ruary 16, 1831. 



[P. S. 91, § 44.] 



An Act to incorporate the Skinnaquits Fishing Company, in Harwich and Chatham. 



1831, 73. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That Sylvanus Eldridge, Kim- 

 ball Eldridge, Amasa Nickerson, Levi Eldridge, Zephaniah Nickerson, 

 Jonathan Small, Elijah Eldridge, Darius Weeks and James Long and 

 their associates, successors and assigns, be and the,y are hereby incor- 

 porated and made a body politic, for the purpose of making the. 

 necessary improvements .for the preservation and taking of fish called 

 alewives, in Red River and Skinnaquits Stream in the towns of Har- 

 wich and Chatham. And it shall be lawful for said corporation to 

 hold a meeting annuall}', on the first Tuesday of April, for the purpose 

 of choosing a clerk, treasurer, assessors and a collector ; and three 

 or more persons, being members of said corporation, to inspect, regu- 

 late, take care of and govern said fisher}', who shall be sworn to the 

 faithful discharge of their duty ; and said committee shall have full 

 power and authority to determine upon the rules and regulations to be 

 observed in the taking of said fish, and to fix in what time and what 

 places the same shall be taken and the prices that shall be paid 

 therefor. 



Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted, That if any person shall take any 

 of said fish from said river or stream within the said towns, at any 

 time or place than such as shall be fixed by the committee aforesaid, 

 every person so offending, shall for each and every such offence, on 

 conviction thereof, pay a fine not exceeding five dollars nor less than 

 two dollars, if the quantity so taken be less than one barrel ; but if 

 the quantity' be more than one barrel, such person so offending shall 

 forfeit and pay for each and every barrel of fish so taken five dollars, 

 to he recovered in any court proper to try the same, for the use of the 

 corporation. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted. That if the committee aforesaid, 

 or either of them, shall detect any person in attempting to take any 

 of said fish at any other time or at any other place than such as shall 

 have been fixed by said committee as aforesaid, or shall find such fish 

 in the possession of any person, he shall be deemed to have taken said 



