390 LAWS RELATING TO 



this act, together with any boat, craft or fishing apparatus employed in 

 such illegal use, and all fish found therewith, shall be forfeited ; and it 

 shall be lawful for any inhabitant or inhabitants of any town bordering 

 on said bay to seize and detain, not exceeding forty-eight hours, any 

 net or seine found in use contrary to the provisions of this act, and any 

 boat, craft, fishing apparatus and fish found therewith, to the end that 

 the same may be seized and libelled if need be by due process of law. 



Sect. 3. All nets and seines in actual use set or stretched in the 

 waters aforesaid in violation of this act are declared to be common 

 nuisances. 



Sect. 4. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to in- 

 terfere with the corporate rights of any fishing company located on 

 said bay nor in any way to affect the fish weirs mentioned in section 

 seventy of chapter ninety-one of the Public Statutes, nor the use of 

 nets or seines in lawful fisheries for shad or alewives in influent 

 streams of said bay, nor the use of the set nets or gill nets in the 

 waters of the town of Fairhaven within a line drawn from Cotnmorant 

 rock southwesterly to the buoy on West island rips and from thence 

 westerly in a straight course through the buoy on West island ledge 

 to the town line of Fairhaven. 



Sect. 5. Whoever violates any provision of this act or aids or 

 assists in violating the same shall pay a fine not exceeding two hun- 

 dred dollars for each offence. 



Sect. 6. District courts and trial justices shall have concurrent 

 jurisdiction with the superior court of all offences and proceedings 

 under the provisions of this act. 



Sect. 7. All fines received under this act shall be paid one-half to 

 the complainant and the other half to the Commonwealth. All moneys 

 from any forfeitures incurred under this act shall inure and be paid 

 one-fourth to the informer and one-fourth to the person filing the libel 

 and the other half to the Commonwealth. — [May 6, 1886. 



An Act to prohibit the seining of Bluefish in the waters of Vineyard Sound opposite 



the towns of Barnstable and Mashpee. 



1886, 202. Be it enacted, etc., as foHoivs: Sect. 1. Whoever in 

 any inlet, bay or arm of tlie sea within three miles of the shore of 

 Barnstable or Mashpee, or in the waters of Vineyard Sound within 

 three miles of the shore of said towns, takes bluefish with a seine or 

 net of any kind, or for the purpose of taking bluefish sets, stretches 

 or draws a seine or net, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred 

 dollars, and shall forfeit to the Commonwealth any fish so taken. 



Sect. 2. One-half of the penalty collected under this act shall be 

 paid to the person or persons making the complaint, and the remain- 

 der to the county of Barnstable. — [May 15, 1886. 



