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Sect. 3. Such license may be altered or revoked at any time, by 

 the concurrent action of the municipal authorities granting the same. 

 — [March 15, 1858. 



An Act to incorporate the Baker's Pond and Drain Fishing Company. 



1858, 65. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. "Wilson V. 

 Baker, Loren Baker, Orlando Baker and Labau Baker, their asso- 

 ciates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation by the 

 name of the Baker's Pond and Drain Fishing Compan}^, in the town 

 of Yarmouth, and are empowered to make a suitable outlet from 

 Baker's Pond in said town, through their own land, to Bass River, 

 for the purpose of creating an alewive fishery, and are authorized to 

 regulate the same ; with all the powers and privileges, and subject 

 to all the liabilities, duties and restrictions contained in the forty- 

 fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. If any person, without the permission of the said corpo- 

 ration, shall take, catch or haul on shore any alewives from said 

 Baker's Pond or Drain, or within one hundred yards from the mouth 

 of said drain, he shall, upon complaint, forfeit a sum not exceeding 

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

 quantitj' be more than one barrel, a sum not exceeding five dollars for 

 each barrel of fish so taken, to be recovered in any court proper to 

 try the same. 



Sect. 3. This act shall not take effect unless accepted by the 

 town of Yarmouth, at a legal meeting called and held for that pur- 

 pose within one 3^ear after the passage of this act. — [March 22, 1858. 



An Act in relation to the Pickerel and Perch Fishery in the District of Marshpee. 



1858, 94. Be it enacted, etc., as foUoujs: Sect. 1. The dis- 

 trict of Marshpee is hereb}- authorized and empowered, at any legal 

 meeting held for that purpose, to make and establish bj'-laws in rela- 

 tion to the taking of pickerel and perch in au}^ of the ponds in said 

 district, by hooks and lines, at anj^ season of the 3'ear. 



Sect. 2. The said district, at an}' regular meeting, with notice in 

 the warrant that the subject will be acted on, may authori/^e the 

 selectmen of said district to let or dispose of the pickerel and perch 

 fishery, or either, within said district or any part thereof, from time 

 to time, for any term not exceeding one year, to an}^ person, upon 

 such terms as may be by its by-laws fixed and established. 



Sect. 3. Any person who shall take or catch any fish in violation 

 of the provisions of any by-laws established under authority of this 

 act, shall forfeit and paj^ a fine of not less than one dollar nor more 

 than twenty dollars, for each and every off'ence, to be recovered by 

 prosecution before any court of competent jurisdiction, one-half to 

 the person prosecuting and one-half to the said district. 



