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the other towns on said Taunton Great River shall annually pay to 

 said town of Middleborough, for reimbursement for their share in the 

 benefits to be derived b}' them for said care, watch and inspection, 

 the sums following : the city of Fall River and the town of Free- 

 town, ten dollars each; the towns of Somerset, Dighton, Berkle}' 

 and Raynham, twenty dollars each ; and the town of Taunton, thirty 

 dollars. And the said town of Middleborough may recover the same 

 in an action of contract, in any court of competent jurisdiction. 



Sect. 3. Any person who shall beat upon the ground, or do any 

 act whatsoever whereby said fish in said rivers shall be disturbed, 

 driven, destroyed or delayed, from the first day of March to the tenth 

 day of June in each year, contrarj- to the meaning and intent of the 

 provisions of chapter four hundred and one of the acts of the year 

 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, shall be entitled to all the 

 pains and penalties named in the eleventh section of this act. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 12, 

 1863. 



An Act to incorporate the East Falmouth Herring River Company in Falmouth. 



1863, 81. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Henry F. 

 Hatch, Benjamin H. Hatch, Robert H. Hatch and Isaac H. Hatch, 

 their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the 

 name of the East Falmouth Herring River Company in Falmouth, 

 and are empowered to open a brook or ditch through their own land 

 from Ashuinet Pond to Bourne's Pond, so called, and from thence to 

 the Vine3^ard Sound, with full powers to regulate the same so far as 

 is necessary- for an alewive fishery ; and for this purpose said corpo- 

 ration shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subiect to all 

 the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the sixty-eighth 

 chapter of the General Statutes. 



Sect. 2. Whoever, without the permission of said corporation, 

 shall take any alewives from said brook or river shall forfeit and pa}'^ 

 a fine of five dollars, to be recovered before any court proper to try 

 the same. 



Sect. 3. All persons who may be owners of land through which 

 said brook passes or which adjoins the same, may become members 

 of said corporation ; subject, however, to pa}' their proportional part 

 of the expenses which shall have been incurred by said corporation 

 before the time of their admission. 



Sect. 4. If an}' damage shall be done b}' said corporation to the 

 propert}' of any person not a member thereof, such individual shall 

 have an action of tort for the injuries. And the members of said 

 corporation shall be jointly and severally individually liable for such 

 damage in an action of tort, in an}' court having jurisdiction of the 



