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northeii}' till it meets a line drawn due east from the mouth of Quaw- 

 ker's River, so called ; thence west to the mouth of said Quawker's 

 River, and thence by the shore to the said Marshpee River, from the 

 fifteenth da}' of September in each year to the twentieth day of March 

 in the year next ensuing. 



Sect. 2. No person except the proprietors of said district, shall 

 take any trout in said river and the waters aforesaid, described in the 

 first section, at any time, without a written permit from the treasurer 

 of Marshpee, which shall specify the time when and the places where 

 thfe person holding the same is allowed to fish. And no person shall 

 at an}' time use any other means of taking trout in said river and 

 waters described as aforesaid, than by angling with hooks and lines. 



Sect. 3. The said district may, by vote in legal meeting, make 

 any regulations or by-laws respecting said fishery not repugnant to 

 the provisions of this act ; and the income from said fisher}' shall inure 

 wholly to said district. 



Sect. 4. Any person offending against the provisions of this act, 

 or any regulations or by-laws passed by authority of the third section 

 of this act, shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dollars for each and 

 every offence, to be recovered by prosecution before any trial justice 

 in the county of Barnstable, to the benefit of said district. 



Sect. 5. Any person who shall have in his possession any trout, 

 knowing the same to have been taken from said river contrarv to the 

 provisions of this act, shall forfeit the sum of fifty cents for every 

 trout so found in his possession. 



Sect. 6. If any minor shall offend against the provisions of this 

 act, the parent, master or guardian of such minor shall be liable, and 

 may be prosecuted accordingly therefor. 



Sect. 7. The said district, at any regular meeting, with notice in 

 the warrant that the subject will be acted on, may authorize the 

 selectmen of said district to lease or dispose of the trout or herring 

 fishery belonging to said district, from time to time, for terms of time 

 not exceeding twenty years in any one lease, the proceeds to go into 

 the treasury for the benefit of the district ; and they may elect and 

 appoint two or more fish-wardens to protect said fishery. All prose- 

 cutions under this act shall be commenced within one year from the 

 time when the offence is committed 



Sect. 8. The thirty-sixth chapter of the year eighteen hundred and 

 forty-nine, and the fifth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-six 

 of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and chapter one hundred 

 and five of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of 

 March next. — [February 24, 1860. 



n864, 150.] 



