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case ; and any member of said corporation of whom such damage has 

 been collected, may have an action of contract against his co-members 

 for contributions. 



Sect. 5. If said brook crosses the highway where no bridge now 

 exists, said corporation shall build a bridge over the same to the 

 acceptance of the selectmen of the town of Falmouth, and be held to 

 keep the same in repair. 



Sect. 6. Nothing herein contained shall authorize said corporation 

 to take or use the property of any person without his written con- 

 sent. 



Sect. 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 12, 

 1863. 



An Act for the protection of Pickerel in Clapp's Pond. 



1863,89. Be it enacted, etc., asfolloios: Sect. 1. Richard C. 

 Hartford, his heirs and assigns, are hereby entitled to the exclusive 

 right to take pickerel from Clapp's Pond, so called, in the town of 

 Provincetown, for the term of ten years from the passage of this act : 

 provided, the consent of the owners of said pond be first obtained. 



Sect. 2. Any person taking pickerel from said pond contrary to 

 the provisions of this act, shall, on conviction in any court having 

 jurisdiction of the offence, be fined not exceeding one dollar, to the 

 use of the Commonwealth. — [March 14, 1863. 



[1813, 147 ; 1838, 19 ; 1844, 65 ; 1853, 377 ; I860, 89.] 



An Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Fishery in Agawam and Half-way Pond 



Rivers. 



1863, 117. Be it enacted^ etc., as follows : Sect. 1. The committees 

 annually chosen by the towns of Plymouth and Wareham, under the 

 provisions of the eighty-ninth chapter of the acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and sixty, shall have a general superintendence and control 

 of the alewive and shad fishery in the Agawam and Half-way Pond 

 Rivers, and in any pond or stream communicating therewith, through- 

 out the entire year for which the}^ are elected, and until other com- 

 mittees are chosen and qualified in their stead. 



Sect. 2. All persons, excepting those who may be engaged with 

 their agents in taking said fish under the license of said committees, 

 within the times limited b}' said committee, who shall take any of the 

 fish called alewives or shad in any stage of their growth, at Kwy time 

 of the 3'ear, in either of said rivers or in a.nj pond or stream commu- 

 nicating therewith, shall forfeit and pay not less than five nor more 

 than fifty dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered in the 

 same manner and to the use of said towns, as is provided in the 

 seventh section of the act herein first before referred to. 



