INLAND FISHERIES. 335 



imposed under this act to be recovered l)y indictment or by complaint 

 before a trial justice in the county of Bristol. — [April 24, 1874. 



[1875, 116.] 



Ax Act for the protection of Trout, Land-locked Salmon and Lake Trout. 

 1874, 18G. Be it enacted^ etc., as foUoioa : Sect. 1. Whoever 

 takes or catches any trout, land-locked salmon or lake trout, within 

 the limits of this Commonwealth, or buys, sells or has in possession 

 the same taken within said limits between the twentieth day of August 

 and the twentieth da}- of March in each year, or takes or catches anj- 

 trout, land-locked salmon or lake trout with an^- net or salmon-pot, at 

 an}- season of the year, shall forfeit for each fisli so caught a sum not 

 less than five nor more than twenty dollars. 



Sect. 2. The twenty-eighth section of the three hundred and eighty- 

 fourth chapter of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixt\--nine is 

 repealed. — [April 24, 1874. 



[P. S. 91, ;j 51; 1884, 171.] 



An Act in addition to an Act for the Protection of Fisheries in the Head-Waters of 



Buzzard's Bay. 



1874, 282. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The pro- 

 visions of chapter two hundred and forty-nine of the acts of eighteen 

 hundred and seventy, entitled " An Act for the protection of the fish- 

 eries in the head-waters of Buzzard's Ba}-," shall hereafter be appli- 

 cable to the waters north-westerly of, or within a straight line extended 

 from Angelica Point to the town of Mattapoisett, to the central point 

 of Ram Island, thence west in a straight line to the westerly town 

 line of Mattapoisett, from the twenty-fifth day of March to the fifteenth 

 day of Ma}- in each year. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [May 29, 

 1874. 



[P. S. 91, § 79; 1886, 192.] 



1875. 



An Act concerning the Shell-Fisheries of the Town of Brewster. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as foUotvs: Sect. 1. No person, except the 

 inhabitants of the town of Brewster, shall take any clams, quahaugs, 

 oysters or other shell-fish from within the waters of said town, with- 

 out a permit from the selectmen thereof, nor shall any inhabitant of 

 said town, at any one time, take more than three bushels of said fish, 

 including their shells, for bait or for the purpose of selling the same 

 without a permit from the selectmen of said town, who may grant the 

 same for such sum to be paid to the use of said town, as they shall 

 deem proper ; but the inhabitants of said town may take said fish for 

 family use without such permit. 



