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and not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for any subsequent 

 offence, and shall in addition forfeit any boat, net, line, rod or other 

 apparatus used in such illegal fishing. — [May 12, 1871. 



[P. S. 91, sS^ 31, 61.] 



An Act to limit the time for catching Alewives. 



1871, 293. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section twenty-nine of 



chapter three hundred and eighty-four of the acts of the year eighteen 



hundred and sixt3'-nine is hereby amended by inserting after the word 



'' shad," the words " or alewives," and also by adding after the word 



"dollars," the words " and for each alewive twenty-five cents." — 



May 15, 1871. 



[P. S. 91, ^ 55.] 



1872. 



An Act to amend Chapter eighty-three of the General Statutes, in relation to the seizure 



of Vessels with Shell-fish on board. 



1872,46. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. Section four- 

 teen of chapter eighty-three of the General Statutes is hereby 



repealed. 



Sect. 2. Section fifteen of said chapter is hereby amended by 

 striking out the word " four" in the first line, and , inserting in place 

 thereof the word " three." 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [February 



27, 1872. 



An Act to re-establish the Alewife and other Fisheries in the Towns of Bridgewater 

 West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater and Halifax. 



1872,190. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The owners 

 and proprietors of the dams on the Town River in the towns of 

 Bridgewater and West Bridgewater, on the Satucket River in the 

 town of East Bridgewater, and on the Monponset River or brook in 

 the town of Halifax are hereby required to erect and maintain fish- 

 ways over or around said dams, and shall be subject to all the powers 

 given to the comraissioners on inland fisheries by chapter three hun- 

 dred and forty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-seven and chapter three hundred and eighty-four of the acts of 

 the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 



Sect. 2. No person shall take, catch, or cause to be taken or 

 caught by any means whatsoever, in any of said rivers or their tribu- 

 taries or the ponds out of which said rivers or tributaries flow, any of 

 the fish called herrings, alewives, or shad, until the first day of May 

 in the j^ear eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 



Sect. 3. The inhabitants of the several towns named herein, 

 shall, at their annual town meetings in the year eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-five and annually thereafter, determine upon some place 



