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Sect. 3, All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provis- 

 ions of this act, are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 28, 

 1863. 



1864. 



[Sp. Laws, V. 1, p. 269.] 

 An Act to protect the Shad Fishery in the Connecticut River. 



1864, 62. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall set, draw or sweep any seine or net the meshes of which are 

 less than two and one-fourth inches square when new and dry, for the 

 purpose of catching shad or anj^ other fish in that part of the Connecti- 

 cut River which is within the limits of this Commonwealth, and below 

 the dam across said river at Holyoke, between the first day of May 

 and the fifteenth day of July during each year. 



Sect. 2. Every person violating the provisions of the preceding 

 section shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten nor more than 

 fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in any court competent 

 to try the same ; one half of said fine to enure to the use of the town 

 in which the offence shall be committed, and the other half to the per- 

 son who shall prosecute therefor. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 2, 



•1864. 



[1868, 130 ; 1869, 76, 384, 422 ; 1870, 369.] 



[1856,214; 1860,46.] 

 An Act to protect the Trout Fishery in Marshpee. 



1864, 150. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall take anj^ trout in Quashnet River in the district of Marshpee, 

 from the fifteenth day of September in each year, to the twentieth da}'^ 

 of March in the year next ensuing. ' 



Sect. 2. No person except the proprietor of said district shall 

 take any trout in said river without a written permit from the treasurer 

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

 the person holding the same is allowed to fish ; and no person shall at 

 any time use an}^ other means of taking trout in said river than by 

 angling with hook and line. 



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

 notice in warrant to that effect, make any regulations or by-laws re- 

 specting said fisheiy not repugnant to the provisions of this act ; and 

 the income from said fishery 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 



