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during the said period in each week, in such manner as to satisfy the 

 fish commissioners. And every person who shall A'iolate the provis- 

 ions of this section, and every person owning or controlling, in whole 

 or in part, any pound or weir, and failing to comply with the require- 

 ments of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of four hundred 

 dollars to the treasurer of the state, for each offence ; and any person 

 setting or using or aiding or assisting in setting or using any pound, 

 weir or set-net in said river between the fifteenth day of March and 

 the fifteenth day of June in each year, the meshes whereof are less 

 than five inches in extent, shall also forfeit and pay the sura of four 

 hundred dollars for each offence, and such pounds, weirs and set-nets 

 shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 4. The mayor and aldermen of any city and the selectmen 

 of any town bordering on the Connecticut River, shall appoint and 

 fix the compensation of one or more suitable persons as fish-wardens, 

 within their respective cities and towns, who shall make complaint of 

 all offences under this act. 



Sect. T), Chapter one hundred and thirty of the acts of the year 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-eight is hereby repealed, — [Marcli 

 17, 18G9. 



[P. S.91,^<>^S 40,42.] 



Ax Act to regulate the seining of Fish in Cole's River and Lee's River in Swansea. 



1869,172. Be it enacted, etc., as folloics: * * * Sect, 9, No 

 person shall set, draw or use anN' seine, net or woir for taking fish, 

 except menhaden, in Cole's River within the limits of the town of 

 Swansea, nor in Lee's River within the limits of the towns of Swansea 

 and Somerset, Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall 

 pay a fine of not less than fifteen dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Sect, 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 17, 

 1869. 



Ax Act for the protection of Trout in Aver}' Brook in the Towns of Charlemont and 



Heath. 



18G9, 235, Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect, 1. Whoever, 

 without a written license from the owners or lessees of Avery Brook 

 or its tributaries, takes any trout therefrom within the limits of either 

 of the towns of Charlemont or Heath, shall forfeit and pa}' a fine of 

 twenty-five dollars for ever}' such offence, to be recovered before an}^ 

 trial justice or in an}' court of record in the county of Franklin, 



Sect, 2, The foregoing section shall be without effect unless the 

 owners or les.sees aforesaid shall erect and maintain notices of this 

 act and its penalties, painted or engraved in clear, legible letters ; 

 said notices to be erected within one hundred rods of each other 



