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Sect. 2. Any person offending against the provisions of this act 

 shall forfeit and paj' a fine of not less than five dollars and not more 

 than fifty dollars, to be recovered by prosecution before any court of 

 competent jurisdiction. — [March 24, 1874. 



Ax Act to amend an Act for encouraging the Cultivation of t^seful Fishes. 



1874,131. Be it enacted, etc., as folio tcs: Sect. 1. Section one 

 of chapter three hundred and sixty of the acts of eighteen hundred 

 and sevent}-, shall not apply to the pond known as the Oyster Pond 

 in Dukes County. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 1, 



1874. 



[1875, 115; P. S. 91, i^ 12,] 



An Act in addition to an Act to regulate tbe-leasing of Great Ponds for the purpose of 



cultivating useful Fishes. 



1874, 135. Be it enacted, etc., as foUoios: Sect. 1. Any town 

 in this Commonwealth, raa}' either alone or joiuth' with any other 

 town, take a lease of any great pond for the purposes named in sec- 

 tion two of chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the acts of the 

 year one thousand eight hundred and sevent^'-three, and may make 

 approi)riations therefor. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 1, 

 1874. 



[P. S. 91, § 14; 1885, 109.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, pp. 272, 296.] 

 An Act to regulate Fishing in the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers. 



1874, 144. Be it enacted, etc., as foUoios : Sect. 1. From and 

 after the passage of this act whoever takes or catches any shad or 

 alewives in an}- part of the Merrimack River or its tributaries h'ing 

 within this Commonwealth, except between sunrise on Monday morn- 

 ing and sunrise of Thursda}' morning of each week, from the first day 

 of March to the tenth day of June in each year, shall forfeit for each 

 alewive so taken, a sum not less than one nor more than five dollars, 

 and for each shad so taken, a sum not less than five' nor more than 

 twenty dollars. 



Sect, 2. Whoever takes or catches anj- salmon in any part of the 

 Connecticut or Merrimack Rivers or their tributaries lying within 

 this Commonwealth, for a period of six years from and after the 

 passage of this act, shall be punished for each offence by a fine of not 

 less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 

 in the house of correction not less than two nor more than six months : 

 provided, that any person catching salmon when seining for other fish 

 and not retaining the same shall not be subject to the penalty provided 

 in this section. 



