INLAND FISHERIES. 379 



An Act concerning the Fisheries in Great Pond and Job's Neck Pond in the town of 



Edgartown. 



1882, 102. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The lessees 

 holding from the commissioners on inland fisheries a lease of Great 

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

 smelts and alewives from said ponds and from the ditches connecting 

 them with each other and with the ocean, at all seasons of the year and 

 without restrictions as to days. 



Sect. 2. Whoever other than said lessees takes an}' fish, except 



eels, from either of said ponds or ditches, without the permission in 



writing of said lessees first obtained, shall forfeit one dollar for each 



fish so taken, and shall also forfeit any boat, net, line, rod or other 



apparatus used in such taking in accordance with the provisions of 



chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the Public Statutes. — [March 



21, 1882. 



[1884,245.] . 



An Act to incorporate the Dennis and Yarmouth Improvement Company. 

 1882,122. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: * * * * 

 Sect. 5. Said corporation shall have the exclusive right to con- 

 duct the fisheries at and about said dam and sluice-way, and ma}- 

 introduce and propagate any kind of fish. — [March 28, 1882. 



An Act relative to the Fisheries in Granite or Goose Cove Pond in the city of 



Gloucester. 



1882, 160. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. David Bab- 

 son of Rockport shall have the exclusive right in Granite or Goose 

 Cove Pond in the city of Gloucester for the purpose of cultivating 

 lobsters and other useful fish until the first day of September in the 

 year eighteen hundred and eight^'-three. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take eff'ect upon its passage. — [April 15, 

 1882. 



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

 An Act relative to Fishing in the Merrimack River. 



1882, 166. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. The penal- 

 ties provided by chapter ninety-one of the Public Statutes relative to 

 fishing in the Merrimack River shall not apply to or be in force 

 against any person drawing a net or seine after the twentieth day of 

 June in each 3'ear at any point below the Essex Merrimack Bridge in 

 said river, unless such person shall take salmon or shad, nor shall a 

 person taking a salmon or shad while thus lawfully fishing and imme- 

 diatel}' returning it alive to the waters from which it was taken be 

 liable to any of the aforesaid penalties. 



Sect. 2. No penalty- shall be incurred b}' anj- one taking sturgeon 



