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or any of its tributaries, within the limits of this Commonwealth, any 

 shad or alewives at any other time than between the fifteenth day of 

 March and the first day of July in each year, shall forfeit and pay 

 for each offence the sum of one hundred dollars. 



Sect. 2. Section three of chapter seventy-six of the acts of the 

 year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine is hereby amended by striking 

 out the words " fifteenth day of June in each year, the meshes whereof 

 are less than five," in the eighteenth and nineteenth lines, and insert- 

 ing the words " first day of July in each year, the meshes whereof 

 are less than two," in place thereof. 



Sect. 3. Chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of the 

 year eighteen hundred and seventy, and all acts and parts of acts 

 inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 



2, 1881. 



[P. S. 91, §§ 32, 40.] 



Ax Act authorizing the ditching of South Beach in Edgartown, adjacent to Great Pond, 

 and relative to the Fislieries in said pond. 



1881, 75. Be it enacted, etc., as foUoivs : Sect. 1. The lessees 

 holdino; from the commissioners of inland fisheries a lease of Great 

 Pond and Job's Neck Pond in the town of Edgartown, may, with the 

 permission of the owners of the land, cut through the beach known as 

 the South Beach, lying lietween the waters of Great Pond and the 

 ocean, and maintain ditches and dams to regulate the flow of water 

 between said pond and the ocean. 



Sect. 2. Commissioners may be appointed, who shall be disinter- 

 ested persons, in accordance with the provisions of section three of 

 chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the General Statutes, who 

 shall have all the powers conferred by said chapter and the acts in 

 amendment thereof and in addition thereto, during and after the ter- 

 mination of said lease, notwithstanding any previous right of fishery. 

 Said commissioners may direct and control the opening and closing of 

 the channel across said beach, and the exercise of all rights conferred 

 b}' the preceding section of this act. 



Sect. 3. Said lessees shall have the right of fishery in said Great 

 Pond according to the terms of their lease, under the laws limiting 

 and defining the rights of such lessees, notwithstanding any statutes 

 heretofore in force specially regulating the fisheries in said pond. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 8, 

 1881. 



