360 LAWS RELATING TO 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 272, 296.] 



An Act relative to the taking of Fish from the Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers and 



their tributaries. 



1881,103. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Nothing in 

 the provisions of chapter two hundred of the acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and eighty shall be construed as giving authority to take or 

 catch fish of any kind within four hundred yards of any fishway on 

 the Merrimack River or its tributaries, or within two hundred yards of 

 any fishway on the Connecticut River or its tributaries, lying within 

 this Commonwealth. 



vSect. 2. This act shall take eflfect upon its passage. — [March 17, 



1881. 



[P. S. 91, { 68.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272.] 

 An Act to regulate Fishing in the Merrimack River. 



1881, 104. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Whoever 

 takes or catches any shad or alewives in an}- part of the Merrimack 

 River, or its tributaries, lying within this Commonwealth, except 

 between sunrise on Monday morning and sunrise on Friday morning, 

 of each week, from the first day of March to the last day of May, 

 inclusive, in each year, shall forfeit for each alewife so taken a sum 

 not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars, and for each shad 

 so taken a sum not less than five nor more than twent}' dollars. 



Sect. 2. Whoever uses a net of any kind or description in the 

 Avaters of the Merrimack River, or its tributaries, lying within this 

 Commonwealth, from the first daj' of June in each3'ear to the last day 

 of Februar}' in the year next succeeding, inclusive, shall forfeit for 

 each offence the sum of twenty-five dollars. 



Sect. 3. Section one of chapter one hundred and fortj'-four of the 

 acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four is hereb}' repealed. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 17, 



1881. 



[P. S. 91, §§ 33, 36.] 



An Act to incorporate the Sesuet Cranberry Company. 



1881,801. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : * * * * 



Sect. 3. Said corporation shall provide, for the passage of the 



fish of the Flax Pond Fishing Compau}^, a fishway to be constructed 



and regulated as the commissioners of inland fisheries may direct, — 



[May 13, 1881. 



[Accepted May 27, 1881.] 



