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Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [February 



23, 1881. 



[P. S. 91, § 73.] 



[1860, 91.] 

 Ax Act to ameud " An Act to incorporate the Nine-Mile Pond Fishing Company." 



1881,32. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Chapter 

 ninety-one of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and 

 sixty, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Nine-Mile Pond Fishing 

 Company," is amended in the sixth line of section two by inserting 

 after the word " outlet," the words "or the stream leading from said 

 outlet to the sea." 



Sect. 2. The rights of riparian owners shall not be affected by 

 this act. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [February 

 23, 1881. 



[1872, 229 ; 1876, 103.] 

 A.\ Act to regulate the tailing of Fish in North River in the County of Plymouth. 



1881,44. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. The inhabi- 

 tants of the town of Pembroke are hereby permitted to take fish at 

 the weir where they have usually caught them, on the North River, so 

 called, or stream leading to the Indian Ponds, so called, in said town, 

 on any secular day of the week, and at any hour of the day, and at 

 no other time. 



Sect. 2. No person or persons shall take fish from the stream 

 leading from said North River to the said Indian Ponds, or streams 

 tributary to the North River, excepting at the weir above mentioned, 

 at any time between the tenth day of April and the fifteenth day 

 of May inclusive, of each year. 



Sect. 3. The selectmen or committee for the time being, of the 

 town of Pembroke, shall, from the first running of alewives, after the 

 tenth da}'^ of April in each year, take and deposit alive, in good con- 

 dition, in Indian Ponds in said Pembroke, not less than ten thousand 

 alewives, so they may cast their spawn in said ponds ; and the expense 

 of the same shall be borne in equal shares by the towns of Pembroke, 

 Marshfield, Scituate and South Scituate, and said towns are hereby 

 permitted to raise money for the same. 



Sect. 4. It shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the several 

 towns on North River to take fish on Mondays, Wednesdays and 

 Fridays of each week, from April first to June first inclusive, of each 

 year, with ten seines only in the manner following, to wit : The towns 

 of South Scituate, Scituate and Pembroke shall each have the right 

 of disposing at public auction for their own benefit, of the privilege 

 of catching fish with two seines only, and the town of Marshfield the 



