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in the county of Plymouth, at such places, not exceeding two in said 

 towns, and on such days, not exceeding three in each week, as said 

 committee shall agree upon and publish in their notice of sale ; they 

 shall also express in said notice the manner of taking and disposing 

 of said fish, and the price at which the purchasers may sell them, 

 which price shall not exceed twenty-five cents per hundred for ale- 

 wives and four cents each for shad : provided, nevertheless, that said 

 committee ma}' fix upon one place in the town of Wareham and one 

 day in each week for taking shad, different from the place and day 

 of the week appointed for taking alewives. 



Sect. 2. The committee of the town of Plymouth, the first year 

 after the passage of this act, and the committee of the town of Ware- 

 ham the second year, and so on alternately, forever, shall notif}^ the 

 town clerk of the other town concerned in said fishery, of the time 

 and place in which said committee shall meet, ten da3's at least before 

 the time of meeting ; and the members of the committee present at 

 the said meeting shall constitute a quorum for doing business. 



Sect. 3. If either of said towns neglects to choose its committee 

 as aforesaid, or if the committee of either town neglects to give 

 notice, as above required, to the other, said town so neglecting shall 

 forfeit and pa}' to the use of the other which chooses such committee 

 or whose committee gives such notice, for each neglect, the sum of 

 one hundred dollars. 



Sect. 4. All persons except the purchasers aforesaid or those 

 employed b}' them, who take an}' of said fish in said rivers or in any 

 pond or stream having communication therewith, between the first 

 day of April and the fifteenth day of June, both inclusive, in each 

 year, shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars nor more than 

 fifty dollars for each and every oflTence. 



Sect. 5. The owner or occupier of any dam on said rivers, shall 

 annually, between the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth day of 

 June next following, for such term of time and in such manner as 

 said committee directs, open a sufficient passage for said fish through 

 said dam ; and on failure of opening such passage or of continuing 

 the same open as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one 

 hundred dollars ; and said committee may open such dam, when 

 neglected as aforesaid, at the expense of the proprietor thereof: 

 provided, no more damage is thereby done the owner than is neces- 

 sary to effect said purpose. 



Sect. 6. If any person makes any weir or causes any obstruction 

 to the fi'ee passage of said fish up said rivers or makes use of any 

 seine to take said fish in said rivers or in any pond or stream com- 

 municating with the same in any other manner or at any other time or 

 place than such as may be approved and established by said commit- 



