INLAND FISHERIES. 325 



Sect. 2. An}- person or persons taking alewives in said Mill 

 River or the said ponds, without the written consent of said Barzilla 

 Scars, his heirs or assigns, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence 

 the sum of ten dollars, one-half of the forfeiture to the use of the 

 person making the complaint, and one-half to said Sears, his heirs 

 and assigns, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. 

 — [April 14, 1871. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 422; 1855, 401.] 



Ax Act lo amend an Act to regulate the Fisheries in Taunton Great River and New- 



masket River. 



1871, 258. Be it enacted, etc. ^ as follows : Sect. 1. That so 

 Huich of the fifth section of chapter four hundred and one of the acts 

 of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five as provides that no shad 

 or alewives shall be taken in Taunton Great River above Berkle}' and 

 Dighton Bridge, between the hours of twelve o'clock in the night 

 following Thursda}' of each week, and four o'clock on Monday morn- 

 ing succeeding, from the first da^^ of March to the tenth da}- of June 

 in each year, including both of said daj's, is hereby repealed. 



vSect. 2. Whoever catches any shad or alewives either in the New- 

 masket or Taunton Great River at any other season of the 3-ear than 

 between the first day of March and the fifteenth da}' of June, shall 

 forfeit for each shad five dollars, and for each alewive twenty-five 

 cents. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of 

 July next. — [May 9, 1871. 



[1875, 71 ; 1876, 208 ; 1879, 83.] 



[1869, 384.] 

 An Act in addition to an Act for encouraging the Cultivation of Useful Fishes. 



1871, 281. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect, 1. Whoever 

 takes any fish the capture of which is forbidden by any of the provis- 

 ions of chapter three hundred and eightj'-four of the acts of the year 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-nine shall, in addition to the penalties 

 therein prescribed, forfeit any boat, net, line, rod or other apparatus 

 used in such, capture, in all cases where such forfeiture is not already 

 provided for in said act. 



Sect. 2. The proprietor of any unnavigable tidal stream, where 

 the same empties into salt water and in which fishes are lawfully cul- 

 tivated or maintained, shall control the fishery' of said stream within 

 his own premises ; and also beyond and around the mouth of said 

 stream so far as the tide may ebb : provided, it does not ebb more 

 than eighty rods ; and whoever fishes within the above described 

 limits without the permission of the said proprietor shall forfeit not 

 less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars for the first offence, 



