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real estate not exceeding two thousand dollars in value over and 

 above the right of fishery named in the second section of this act. 



Sect. 6. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one thou- 

 sand dollars, represented by one hundred shares of ten dollars each, 

 with the right to increase the same to three thousand dollars, by vote 

 of said corporation. 



Sect. 7. Nothing herein contained shall give the corporation 

 rights and privileges in an}' fishery now existing in said ponds, over 

 and above other citizens of the town of Barnstable ; and this act 

 shall be void unless approved by the town aforesaid, at a public town 

 meeting, by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon. 



Sect. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. — [March 20, 

 1860. 



1861. 



An Act to incorporate the Little Sipwissett Cranberry and Fishing Company in the 



Town of Falmouth. 



1861,74. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Barnabus Bower- 

 man, Silas Gifford and Prince G. Moore, their associates and succes- 

 sors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Little Sipwissett 

 Cranberry and Fishing Company, for the purpose of improving and 

 regulating the Little Sipwissett Meadow in the town of Falmouth, by 

 flowing and draining said meadow as the company shall deem best 

 for the culture of cranberries, and also for the purpose of regulating 

 and protecting the alewive fishery in a pond in said meadow, and in 

 the river leading from said pond to Buzzard's Bay. 



Sect. 2. Said compan}' shall have all the powers and privileges, 

 and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in 

 the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes. 



Sect. 3. Whoever shall obstruct the passage of alewives between 

 said pond and ba}', in either direction, or, without the permission of 

 said corporation, shall take any alewives from said pond or river, or 

 shall set, drag or shoot any seine in Buzzard's Bay, within fifty rods 

 of the mouth of said river, for the purpose of taking alewives there- 

 from, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which shall 

 inure to the benefit of the company. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take eflTect upon its passage. — [March 

 15, 1861. 



[1815, 154.] 

 An Act for the regulation of the Fisheries in the Town of Winchester. 



1861, 157. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The pro- 

 visions of the act passed on the sixteenth day of February in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled 

 " An Act to prevent the destruction of the fish called shad and ale- 



