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of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the fisheries 

 above named shall be considered fisheries created by the town of 

 Kingston. 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 17, 

 1872. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 269.] 

 Ax Act relating to the Shad and Alewife Fishery in North River. 



1872,229. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. No shad or 

 alewives shall be taken in any part of North River in the county of 

 Plymouth, from the first day of March to the fifteenth day of June in 

 each year hereafter, including both of said days, excepting on Mon- 

 days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week from sunrise to sunset 

 of said days, under the penalty provided for in section twenty-one, 

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

 hundred and sixty-nine, one-half of the money recovered as a penalty 

 in any case arising under this law to be paid to the person making 

 the complaint in the case in which the same is recovered, and the 

 remainder to the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 2. So much of section twenty-second, chapter three hun- 

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

 sixty-nine as provides that whosoever uses any sweep seine or com- 

 bination of sweep seines in such a manner as at any moment to close 

 or seriously obstruct more than two-thirds of the width of the stream 

 at the place where it is used, shall not apply to said North River : 

 provided, that no seine or combination of seines used in said river 

 shall exceed in length the width of the river where it is used : and 

 provided, also, that no person shall be allowed to use set-nets or gill- 

 nets on said river or its tributaries under the penalty prescribed in the 

 first section of this act. — [April 20, 1872. 



[1876, 103; 1881, 44; 1883, 76; 1884, 199.] 



Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 272. 

 An Act in relation to the Taking of Smelts and Pickerel in Merrimack River. 

 1872,235. Beit enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Nothing con- 

 tained in section twenty-one of chapter three hundred and eighty-four 

 of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall be con- 

 strued to prevent the taking of smelts or pickerel or pickerel bait, in 

 the Merrimack River, between the first day of October and the 

 fifteenth day of April following. — [April 23, 1872. 



[1878, 172; P. S. 91, ^39.] 



[1826,54; 1851.77; 1856,285.] 

 An Act to protect the Fisheries in the Town of Edgartown. 

 1872,248. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. No person 

 shall set, draw or stretch any seine or net of any kind in any of the 



