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comiaissioiiers under this act, shall forfeit the sum of fift}' doUars for 

 each day's neglect or refusal so to keep open or maintain said fish- 

 way, to be recovered by indictment in the county where said dam, or 

 any part thereof, is situated, one-half thereof to the use of the com- 

 plainant, and the other half to the use of the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 3. There shall be ajtpropriated and paid out of the treasury 

 of the Commonwealth a sura not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to 

 defray the expense of the commissioners, first, in re-slocking the 

 rivers of Massachusetts with shad, salmon and alewives ; second, in 

 re-stocking the ponds in this Commonwealth, for the purpose of 

 propagating black bass and other fish. — [June 1, 1867. 



[P. S. 91, §§ 4, 6.] 



1868. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 4il.] 

 Ax Act for the protection of Trout in Grist-Mill Pond, in the Town of Wareham. 



1868, 110. Be it enacted, etc., as foUotvs : Sect. 1. No person 

 shall take any trout from Grist-Mill Pond, near the Parker Mills Iron 

 Works, in the town of Wareham, or the waters running into the same, 

 at any time of the year, without permission of the proprietor or 

 proprietors of said pond and waters. 



Sect. 2. Any person offending against the provisions of this act 

 shall forfeit and pay a fine of one dollar for each trout taken, to be 

 recovered by prosecution before any trial justice in the county of 

 Plymouth. — [April 10, 1868. 



[1867, 149.] 

 A?i Act to amend " An Act for the Re-.stocking of Mj stic River and its Trihutaries 



with Fish." 



18GH, 128. Be it enacted, etc., as foUoics: Sect. 1. The one 

 hundred and forty-ninth chapter of the acts of the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled " An Act for the re-stocking 

 of Mystic River and its tributaries with fish," is hereby amended by 

 adding to the second section thereof the words following, viz. : 

 provided, that the several committees for the preservation of fish 

 mentioned in the fourth section, may take such fish as may be re- 

 quired to re-stock the said river and tributaries ; and also, by adding 

 to the fourth section, after the word "Cambridge," the word 

 " Woburn." 



Sect. 2. Any person who shall place or cause to be placed in the 

 waters of Mystic River or of its tributaries, or of Mystic Pond, or 

 who shall c:.use to flow into said waters any substance which may 

 destroy or injure the fish therein, shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding fifty dollars for each offence, — [April 16, 1868, 



