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broke and Hanover, or either of them, by the act entitled "An Act 

 for regulating the taking the fish called alewives in their passage up 

 Indian Head River, so called, between the towns of Pembroke and 

 Hanover, in the county of Plymouth, into a pond in said town of 

 Pembroke known by the name of Indian Head Pond," passed Feb- 

 ruary twenty-second, in the year one thousand seven hundred and 

 ninety-two, are herebj^ conferred and imposed upon the towns of 

 Hanson and Hanover, in said county of Pl^-mouth. — [March 7, 

 1859. 



[1849, 36 ; 1853, 186.] 

 An Act relating to the Trout Fisher)' in Marshpee River. 



1859, 105. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The first 

 section of the thirty-sixth chapter of the acts of the year one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and fort3'-nine is hereby so amended that no 

 person shall take any trout in Marshpee River from the fifteenth day 

 of September in each year to the twentieth day of March in the year 

 next ensuing. 



Sect. 2. The fifth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-six 

 of the acts of the 3'ear one thousand eight hundred and fift3'-three is 

 hereby so amended that the selectmen of the district of Marshpee may 

 lease or dispose of the trout or herring fisher}'^ in said district, accord- 

 ing to the provisions of said section, for terms of time not exceeding 

 twenty years in any' one lease. — [March 17, 1859. 



[I860, 46.] 



[1857, 30.] 

 An Act to amend an Act relating to the Fisheries. 



1859, 106. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The first 

 section of the thirtieth chapter of the acts of the 3-ear eighteen hun- 

 dred and fift3'-seven, is hereb3' amended 1)3' striking out all after the 

 word "provided," in said section, and inserting the following: That 

 the provisions of this act shall not extend to an3' town unless such 

 town, at a legal meeting, shall adopt the same. — [March 17, 1859. 



1860. 



[1839, 102 ; 1856, 214.] 

 An Act to protect the Fishery in Marshpee. 



1860, 46. Be it enacted, etc., as folloios: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall take an3^ trout in Marshpee River, extending to and including 

 all the waters into which said river empties from the westerl3' side as 

 far as the water flows, to a line drawn due east and west across the 

 northerly' end of Poppenessett Island, so called ; thence on the same 

 line east to the centre of the channel which forms the line of division 

 between Barnstable and Marshpee ; thence b3' said line of division 



