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eighteen hundred seventy-one, should be terminated at the earliest 

 possible period. 



Resolved, That a copy hereof be sent to each of our Senators and 

 Kepresentatives in Congress. — [February 27, 1879. 



1880. 



An Act to regulate Fishing in certain waters by Fish Pounds and other fixed apparatus. 



1880,61. Beit enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. From the first 

 day of May to the fifteenth da}- of June in each year no person 

 shall set, or permit to remain set, any fish pound, weir, trap, fyke or 

 other similar fixed apparatus for catching fish, except gill nets, 

 between the hours of six o'clock on Saturday morning and six o'clock 

 on the succeeding Sunda}^ evening, so as to catch any fish, in the 

 tidal waters of the count}' of Dukes Count}^ and of the count}' of 

 Bristol and of the towns of Mattapoisett, Marion and AYareham in 

 the county of Plymouth, and in the tidal waters on the westerly boun- 

 daries of the towns of Sandwich and Falmouth at and near Buzzard's 

 Bay,, and on that portion of the southerly boundar}' of the county of 

 Barnstable extending from the south-westerl}' corner of the town of 

 Falmouth easterly to Point Gammon in the town of Yarmouth. 



Sect. 2. Whoever by himself or by his servants or agents, or as 

 the servant or agent of another, violates any of the provisions of this 

 act, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars 

 nor less than one hnndred dollars. 



Sect. 3. One-half of the penalt}' paid on conviction shall be for 

 the use of the person commencing the prosecution whether bv com- 

 plaint or indictment. 



Sect. 4. All prosecutions under this act shall be commenced 

 within three months after the offence committed and not afterwards. 



Sect. 5. The provisions of this act shall not be construed so as to 



permit fishing with such fixed apparatus where it is now forbidden by 



law. — [March 5, 1880. 



[P. S. 91, §J 76-78, 104.] 



An Act to regulate the Taking of Salmon in this CommoTiwealth. 

 1880, 68. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Whoever takes 

 or catches any salmon in any of the waters of this Commonwealth for 

 a period of two 3'ears from and after the first da}' of April in the year 

 eighteen hundred and eighty shall be punished for each offence by a 

 fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by 

 imprisonment in the House of Correction not less than two nor more 

 than six months : provided, that any one catching salmon when law- 

 fully fishing, and immediately returning them alive to the waters 

 whence taken, shall not be subject to the penalty provided in this 

 section. 



