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complainant, and the remainder to the town within whose jurisdic- 

 tion the offence was committed, to be sued for and recovered in anj^ 

 court competent to try the same, on complaint of any one of the select- 

 men, or any legal voter of either of the towns of Duxbury, Kingston 

 or Plymouth. 



Sect. 2. Any boat, craft, vessel or fishing apparatus used by per- 

 sons violating the provisions of this act, may be seized and detained 

 not exceeding forty-eight hours by the selectmen of either of the 

 towns aforesaid, in order that the same, if need be, may be attached 

 or arrested by due process of law, to satisfy said fine, with costs. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. — 

 [April 24, 1857. 



An Act to incorporate the Lagoon Pond Company in Dukes County. 



1857,87. Be it enacted, etc. ^ as follows: Sect. 1. Bay es Norton, 

 Darius Norton, Elisha T. Smith, and their associates and successors, are 

 hereby made a corporation by the name of the Lagoon Pond Company, 

 in Dukes County, and are empowered to build a dam across said pond 

 about or from that part of the pond called Long Point, for the pur- 

 pose of creating a herring and perch fishery ; and said company shall 

 possess the exclusive right to said herring and perch fishery : provided, 

 that all persons may take fish from said pond with hook and line and 

 ma}' spear eels and dig clams therefrom. 



Sect. 2. The said compan}' shall make said dam within two 

 years from the passage of this act ; and said dam shall be of sufficient 

 width and strength, with a good and sufficient bridge, so that it can 

 be used as a public highway. 



Sect. 3. The said dam shall not injure by its height any of the 

 surrounding meadows, or take away or injure an^' existing right of 

 any person or corporation whatever. 



Sect. 4. For the above named purposes said company shall have 

 all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties, restric- 

 tions and liabilities contained in the forty-fourth chapter of the 

 Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 5. If any person, without leaA^e from said company, shall 

 take any fish from said pond except as provided in this act, they shall 

 forfeit for each offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which 

 may be recovered in any court competent to try the same. — [April 

 24, 1857. 



[1862, 47 ; 1885, 245.] 



An Act to incorporate the Caleb's Pond Company. 

 1857, 193. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Valentine 

 Pease, Henry Pease, 2d, and David Davis, their associates and sue- 



