INLAND FISHERIES. 321 



Sect. 2. Such proceeding, whether by bill to enforce specific per- 

 formance or by suit at law, as is provided in section seven of said 

 chapter two hundred and thirty-eight, for money expended, shall be 

 brought in the supreme judicial court, may be made returnable in the 

 county of Suffolk, and shall have precedence upon the docket and 

 priority in all its stages over suits depending between private parties. 



— [June 21, 1869. 



[Repealed P. S. 224.] 



Resolve making an Appropriation for Fish-culture. 



1869, Res. 28. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the 

 treasury of the Commonwealth, and the same is hereby appropriated, 

 a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, to be expended 

 under direction of the commissioners appointed under chapter two 

 hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-six, for purposes connected with the culture of useful fishes 

 and of stocking the waters of the Commonwealth therewith. — [April 

 10, 1869. 



1870. 



An Act to incorporate the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company. 

 1870,36. Beit enacted, etc., as follows: * * * Sect. 17. The 

 said canal compan}^ shall also make such suitable provisions for the 

 continuance of the herring fishery in Monument River and Herring 

 Pond as the commissioners on inland fisheries may prescribe ; and in 

 case of injur}' to any private fishery, shall pay to the owner thereof 

 such damages as shall, upon the application of either party, be esti- 

 mated b}' said commissioners, in a manner similar, so far as may be, 

 to that provided in laying out highways ; and with a similar right of 



appeal to a jury, by proceedings like those provided for in section six. 



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Sect. 25. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [February 

 26, 1870. 



[1856, 176 ; 1865, 212.] 

 Ax Act for protection of the Fisheries in the Head-waters of Buzzard's Bay. 



1870, 249. Be it enacted, etc., asfollov)s: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall draw, set, stretch or use any drag-net, set-net, purse or seine of 

 any kind, or construct, maintain or use any fish-weir, yard or pound 

 for taking fish of any kind anywhere in the waters of Buzzard's Bay 

 northerly of or within a straight line extended from the entrance to 

 the harbor in West Falmouth to Bird Island Light ; thence in a 

 straight line to Great Neck Point, on the Marion shore, nor in any 

 hay, cove, inlet, x'iver, creek or stream bordering on or flowing into 

 said waters within the limits aforesaid. 



