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INDEX. 



Page 

 Edeartown Oyster Pond, seining reg- 

 ulated 277 



Edcrartown, Pocha Pond Meadow and 

 Fishing Company, incorporated, 239, 248, 



272 

 Edgartown, Sachachautacket Fish- 

 ing Company, incorporated . . 220 

 Edjiartown, Trap's Creeli Fishing 



Company, incorporated . 217, 239, 266 

 Edgartown and Cottage City, seining 



regulated 391 



Eel River and Town Brooli, Ply- 

 mouth, herring .... 298 

 Eels and shell-fish, Marshpee and 



Barnstable 384 



Eels, taking may he regulated by 

 city and town authorities . . 356 



Eels, Chatham 134 



Eels, Edgartown .... 352 



Eels, Eel River, Plymouth . . 339 



Eels, Harwich 184 



Eels, Herring River, Wellfleet . . 344 

 Eels, Ipswich River and tributaries, 349 

 Eels, Jehu's Pond, Mashpee . . 336 

 Eels, Jones River, Kingston . . 339 

 Eels, Mattapoisett River and Bar- 

 low's Pond 344 



Eels, Mushquashuit Creek, Scituate 



and Coliasset 343 



Eels, Muskeekit Island, Nantucket, 202 

 Eels. Neponset River, Dorchester 



and Milton 181 



Eels, North River in the county of 



Plymouth 350 



Eels, Orleans 69 



Eels and shell-fish, taking regulated 



by cities and towns . . . 371 



Egremont, Winchel's Pond, pickerel, 156 

 Eldridge, Barnabas W., and others, 



fish-weir in Dennis .... 262 

 Eldridge, Thomas L., and others, 



fish-weir in Orleans . . . 261 

 Eldridge, William W., and others, 



fish-weir in Harwich . . . 264 

 Ell Pond, Mystic River, Maiden, 



alewives and shad . . . 84, 110 

 Essex, Chebacco Pond, shad and 



alewives 127 



Essex, Mill River, alewives and shad ; 



fishways 352 



Essex Company, to maintain fishway, 

 Merrimack River, at Lawrence . 278 



F. 



Fairhaven, lobsters, tautog, bass and 

 other fish .... 178, 374 



Fairhaven, seining regulated . . 244 



Fall River, Mount Hope Bay, shell- 

 fisheries 334 



Fall River, Taunton Great River, 

 alewives and shad . . 168, 225, 268 



Fall River, Watuppa Pond, seining 

 prohibited 345 



Falls River, alewives, shad and other 

 fish 116, 133 



Falls River, Newbury, Rowley and 

 Boxford, alewives, bass, shad and 

 other fish 125 



Falmouth, alewives ... 75. 80 



Falmouth, fisheries regulated . 354, 373 



Pace 

 Falmouth, seining regulated . . 283 

 Falmouth, lobsters, tautog, bass and 



other fish 188 



Falmouth, Ashumet Pond to Bourne's 



Pond, alewives .... 293 

 Falmouth, Bowman's, Little and 

 Perch Ponds, selectmen may per- 

 mit seines to be used . . 266 

 Falmouth, Dam Pond to Wild Har- 

 bor, alewives 255 



Falmouth, Dexter's River and Coona- 



misset Pond, herring and alewives, 237 

 Falmouth, Little Sipwissett Cran- 

 berry and Fishing Company, 



incorporated 290 



Falmouth, Oyster Pond River Com- 

 pany, alewives .... 267 

 Falmouth, Waquoit Bay, seining 



prohibited 247 



Farm Pond Fishing Company, Edgar- 

 town, incorporated . . . 275, 383 

 First Herring Brook, Scituate, ale- 

 wives 163 



Fish, six score and twelve, accounted 



to the hundred .... 3 

 Fish, inspection and packing . . 353 

 Fish, artificial propagation of, com- 

 missioners appointed to consider 



the matter 279 



Fish culture, 279, 309. 315, 321, 323, 324, 

 325, 329, 330, 332, 340, 347, 379 

 Fish or lobsters, traps, trawls and 



seines not to be molested . . 377 

 Fishery of ponds of more than 



trt'enty acres to be public . . 363 

 Fishing, fowling and hunting to be 



free 3 



Fishways over dams . . . 303,315 

 Fishways over dams to be con- 

 structed under direction of com- 

 missioners 363 



Fish-wear Company, incorporated . 210 

 Fish-weir, Brewster .... 260 

 Fish-weir, Chatham . . . .261 

 Fish-weir, Dennis .... 262 

 Fish-weir, Eastham .... 244 

 Fish-weir, Harwich . . . 203, 264 

 Fish-weir, Orleans . . . 261,263 

 Fish-weir, Provincetown . . . 253 

 Fish- weir, Yarmouth . . . 265 



Fish-weirs, construction of . . 345 

 Fish-weirs, pounds, etc., owners to 

 make returns of fish taken, to com- 

 missioners .... 341, 356 

 Fish-weirs, city and town authorities 



may authorize construction . . 273 

 Flax Pond to Saugns River, Lynn, 



alewives and shad . . . 183, 343 

 Flax Pond to Sesuet Creek, alewives, 251, 



360 

 Flax Pond Fishing Company, 



Dennis, incorporated . . . 251 

 Framingham, shad and alewives . 50 

 Framingham, seines not to be used . 176 

 Freetown, Taunton Great River, ale- 

 wives and shad . . 168, 225, 268 

 Fresh Pond, Cambridge and Water- 

 town, fisheries . • . . .70 

 Fresh Pond Brook, Plymouth, ale- 

 wives 78 



Fresh Pond Meadows, Cambridge 

 and West Cambridge, alewives 

 and shad 135 



