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Sect. 4. All acts and parts of acts iuconsistent herewith are 

 hereby repealed. — [June 6, 1856. 



Resolve concerning the Artificial Propagatipn of Fish. 

 185G, Res. 58. Resolved, That his excellency the governor, with 

 the advice of the council, be authorized to appoint three commissioners 

 whose duty it shall be to ascertain and report to the next general 

 court, such facts respecting the artificial propagation of fish as may 

 tend to show the practicability and expediency of introducing the 

 same into this Commonwealth under the protection of law ; and said 

 commissioners shall keep an account of their actual expenses in 

 executing this commission, to be dul}' audited and allowed by the 

 governor and council, and paid b}' warrant upon the treasury duly 

 drawn b}" the governor for that piu'pose : provided, however, that the 

 amount does not exceed one thousand dollars. — [May 16, 1856. 



1857. 



An Act to amend Chapter Fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, relating to Fisheries 



1857, 30. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall take or catch any pickerel or trout in any rivers, streams or 

 ponds, in an}' other manner than by hooks and lines ; and no person 

 shall take any pickerel in any rivers, streams or ponds, from the first 

 day of December to the first day of May ; and every person oflTending 

 against an}' of the provisions of this act shall forfeit the sum of one 

 dollar for ever}' pickerel or trout by him taken contrary to the said 

 provisions, to be recovered by indictment, or on complaint before any 

 justice of the peace ; and one half of said fine shall belong to the 

 complainant, and the other half to the Commonwealth : 2:)rovided, that 

 the inhabitants of any town may, at their annual meeting, suspend, 

 in whole or in part, the provisions of this act, so far as respects such 

 town, for any time not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 2. The second section of chapter fifty-five of the Revised 

 Statutes, relating to fisheries, is hereby repealed. — [March 25, 1857. 



[P. S.91,] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 2, p. 502.] 

 Ax Act to protect the McnUade.i Fishery in the Towns of Duxbury, Plymouth and 



Kingston. 



1857, 85. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Every per- 

 son who shall, between the first day of May and the first day of 

 November, inclusive, in each year, deposit the offal or waste dressing 

 of the menhaden fish upon the shores or flats, or throw the same into 

 the waters of the bays, harbors, rivers or creeks of the towns of 

 Duxbury, Plymouth or Kingston, shall, for each and every offence, 

 forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, one half to the 



