200 LAWS RELATING TO 



1832. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 422.] 

 Ax Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Fishery in Taunton Great River. 



1832,44. Sect. 1. Be it enacted. That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, an}' person or persons who shall have purchased or 

 hereafter shall purchase any privilege or privileges of catching shad 

 or alewives in Taunton Great River (the purchaser or purchasers of 

 the privilege of the town of Somerset excepted), and who shall have 

 selected and located or hereafter shall select and locate the place or 

 places where he or they intend to use his or their seine or seines, net 

 or nets, for the purpose of catching shad or alewives, and such place 

 or places are or shall be in that part of the towu of Berkle}- which is 

 southerl}- of a line running due east from the mouth of the Segregan- 

 sett River, so called, in the town of Dighton, shall have the right and 

 it shall be lawful for au}' such person or persons to draw and sweep 

 at'such place and places, with a seine or seines, net or nets, thirty 

 rods in length, and no more. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the purchaser or purchasers 

 of any privilege or privileges of catching shad and alewives, as afore- 

 said, who shall have selected and located or hereafter shall select and 

 locate the place or places where he or they intend to use his or their 

 seine or seines, net or nets, for the purpose aforesaid, in that part of 

 the town of Berkley' which is southerly of a line drawn due east from 

 the mouth of said Segregansett River, shall be subject to, and shall 

 regulate and govern himself or themselves, in the use of such privilege 

 or privileges, b}' all the provisions and requisitions of an act entitled 

 "An Act to regulate the fishery in Taunton Great River," which 

 passed on the twent^^-first day of February in the year of our Lord one 

 thousand eight hundred and tvventy. except so far as the same are in- 

 consistent with the provisions of this act. — [February 20, 1832. 



[1817, 151 ; 1822, 54.] 

 Ax Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Fisherj' in Monatiquot River in the Town 



of Braintree. 



1832, 54. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the committee or the sur- 

 vivor or the survivors of them, in case of death of either, annualh' 

 chosen by the inhabitants of said town of Braintree, pursuant to the 

 provisions of the first section of said act, be and the}' are hereby 

 fully authorized and empowered to prosecute, sue for and recover any 

 and all penalties incurred by any breach or breaches of said act, 

 before any court of record proper to try the same, and that all fines 

 and penalties recovered by such committee, suing as such, or by the 

 survivor or survivors of them, shall be and enure to the sole use of the 

 said inhabitants of said town of Braintree. — [February 25, 1832. 



