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the manner provided when land is taken for highways. Whoever 

 wilfulh- hinders or molests any such fish warden, or any person 

 authorized by such fish wardens, in the necessary clearing of said 

 river or its tributaries, and in the necessary and proper use of lands 

 on said river or its tributaries, or said pond, for creating and protect- 

 ing the said fishery, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty 

 dollars for each offence, to be recovered in the manner provided in 

 section four of this act. 



Sect. 4. If any person other than those who have purchased such 

 privilege as aforesaid fishes with a seine or net at any time or in any 

 manner, or sets an}^ net, seine, weir, or other obstructions in any part 

 of said river or its tributaries, or of said pond, with intent to take or 

 destroy any shad or herring, he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars 

 for each offence, to be recovered on complaint, one-half to the use of 

 said town of Swanzey and one-half to the use of the person who shall 

 give information leading to the prosecution and conviction of such 

 offender ; and all seines, nets or weirs so used or set shall be for- 

 feited to the person who shall give such information. 



Sect. 5. All laws relating to fishing in Cole's River are repealed. 

 — [April 29, 1882. 



1883. 



[P. S. 91, §§ 36 -39.] 

 An Act relative to Fishing in the Merrimack River. 

 1883, 31. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: For the purpose of 

 taking fish called "shiners" for bait, any person may draw a net or 

 seine during the months of November and December at any point in 

 the Merrimack River, except within four hundred yards of any fish- 

 way : provided, that all other fish so caught are immediately returned 

 to the waters from which they were taken ; and the penalties provided 

 for in sections thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of 

 chapter ninety-one of the Public Statutes shall not apply to the taking 

 offish as herein provided. — [March 6, 1883. 



[1872,229; 1876, 103; 1881,44.] 



An Act in addition to An Act to regulate the taking of Fish in North River in the 



county of Plymouth. 



1883,76. Be it enacted, etc., as folloios: Sect. 1. Whoever sets 

 a seine or casts a mesh net in the North River in Plymouth County, or 

 whoever by seine or mesh net takes any fish from said North River, ex- 

 cept such persons as have authority so to do under chapter forty-four of 

 the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall be punished 

 for each offence by a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 

 than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the house of correction 

 not less than one nor more than three months. 



