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offence, to be recovered by prosecution before any trial justice for the 

 county of Barnstable, for the benefit of said district. 



Sect. 5. Any person who shall receive any trout knowing the 

 same to have been taken from said river contrary to the provisions of 

 this act, shall forfeit the sum of fifty cents for every trout so received. 



Sect. 6. Said district, at any regular meeting, with notice in the 

 warrant to that effect, may elect and appoint two or more fish- wardens 

 to protect said fishery. All prosecutions under this act shall be com- 

 menced within one year from the time when the offence is committed. 



Sect. 7. This act shall take effect upon the first day of May 

 next.— [April 13, 1864. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 238, 512; vol. 3, p. 98. 1815, 54; 1820, 67; 1861, 157.] 

 An Act in relation to Fisheries in the Town of Winchester. 



1864, 234. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. All acts 

 heretofore passed for the preservation of fish and the regulation of 

 fisheries in the Mystic River, shall extend to the town of Winchester, 

 and to all the ponds and streams therein ; and the committee for the 

 preservation of fish in said town shall have full powers to remove all 

 obstructions to the passage of fish therein, during the time fixed by 

 law for the free passage of fish. 



Sect. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any of 

 the provisions of the act entitled " An Act for supplying the city of 

 Charlestown with pure water," approved March twenty-eighth, in the 

 3^ear eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [May 12, 

 1864. 



[1865, 219 ; 1867, 149.] 



An Act to regulate Seining in the Harbor of Mattapoisett. 

 1864, 259. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: No person shall set, 

 draw or use any seine or net in the harbor of Mattapoisett or the 

 waters flowing into said harbor, within a line drawn from Strawberry 

 Point, on the easterly side of said harbor, to the most southerly 

 point of Mattapoisett Neck, on the westerly side of said harbor, 

 without the permission of the selectmen of Mattapoisett ; and any 

 person offending against the provisions of this act shall forfeit and 

 pay the sum of twentj' dollars for each offence, to be recovered by 

 complaint before any trial justice, for the use of the complainant. — 

 [May 13, 1864. 



[1865, 183.] 



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An Act to restrict the Seining of Fish in the Harbor of Marion. 

 1864, 273. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 hall set, draw or use any seine or net for taking fish in the harbor 



