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Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 



hereby repealed. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [June 18, 



1870. 



[1881, 47.] 



An Act to prohibit the tailing of Black Bass in Lake Cochituate. 

 1870, 382. Be it e7iacted, etc., as follows: Whoever catches, takes 

 or destro3's any black bass in the waters of Lake Cochituate in the 

 towns of Natick, Wayland or Framingham in the county of Middlesex, 

 shall forfeit for each offence not less than ten nor more than fifty 

 dollars. — [June 21, 1870. 



Resolve making appropiiation for Fish Culture. 

 1870, Res. 41. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of 

 the treasury, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, to be ex- 

 pended under direction of the commissioners on inland fisheries, for 

 purposes connected with the culture of useful fishes and of stocking 

 the waters of the Commonwealth therewith. — [May 12, 1870. 



1871. 



[1869, 384.] 

 An Act for the better protection of Black Bass. 

 1871, 113. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. That in 

 section thirty of chapter three hundred and eightj'-four of the acts of 

 the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the word July be substi- 

 tuted for the word June. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [May 22, 

 1871. 



[P. S. 91, § 56.] 



An Act to protect an Alewive Fishery in Sandwich. 

 1871, 189. Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs : Sect. 1. Barzilla 

 Sears, of the town of Sandwich, his heirs and assigns, shall have, for 

 the term of twenty years from the date of the passage of this act, the 

 exclusive right to take and catch alewives in the stream known as 

 Mill River, running over the mill-dam of said Sears and through the 

 marshes of said Sandwich to the waters of Sandwich Harbor, on 

 Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in each week, and at no 

 other time : provided, that said Sears, his heirs and assigns, shall 

 construct and maintain a good and sufficient passage-way over or 

 around the dam or dams which now are or which may hereafter be 

 erected upon said stream, to enable fish to enter the ponds above such 

 dam or dams, and shall keep such passage-way open and unobstructed 

 from the tenth day of April to the first day of June inclusive in each 

 year. 



