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commissioners ; and any violation of an}- of said rights shall be sub- 

 ject to the penalties imposed by section nineteen of said chapter. 

 Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 22, 



1876. 



[P. S. 91, §§ 17-19.] 



[1872, 229.] 



Ax Act to regulate the* taking of Fish in North River, in the County of Plymouth. 



1876,103. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : Sect. 1. No person 

 shall fish with a net or seine in North River or any of its tributaries, 

 in tlic county of Plymouth, nor in any manner take or catch any shad, 

 salmon or alewives, until the first day of July in the year eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-one, under the penalty of five dollars for each shad 

 or alewife, and fifty dollars for every salmon so taken. 



Sect. 2. An}^ net or seine, together with any boat, craft or fishing 

 apparatus used in violation of the provisions of this act, and all fish 

 unlawfully captured as hereinbefore mentioned, shall be forfeited to 

 the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of July in the 

 year eighteen hundred and seventy-si. x:. — [April 6, 1876. 



[1877, 109; 1884, 199.] 



An Act requiring certain returns to the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries. 



1876, 104. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The owner 

 or owners of every pound, weir, or other similar fixed contrivance, or 

 of any fishing pier, seine, drag or gill net used in any of the waters 

 of this state for fishing purposes, shall make written report, under 

 oath, to the commissioners on inland fisheries, on or before the first 

 day of October in each year, specifying the number of each kind of 

 edible fish caught by his or their respective pounds, weirs or other 

 similar fixed contrivances, piers, seines, drag or gill nets, during the 

 3'ear next preceding the date of said report. 



Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners on inland fish- 

 eries to furnish each owner or proprietor of any pound, weir or similar 

 fixed contrivance, pier, seine, drag or gill net, on or before the 

 fifteenth day of March in each 3'ear, with suitable blank forms for the 

 reports required by the preceding section, so arranged that each day's 

 catch maybe separatel}" recorded thereon; and in filling out such 

 reports, such owner or proprietor shall give the results of each day's 

 fishing so far as practicable ; and it shall be the duty of such owner 

 or proprietor to apply to the commissioners on inland fisheries for 

 such blank forms. 



Sect. 3. Whoever knowingl}^ and wilfully violates any of the 

 provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten 

 nor more than cue hundred dollars. 



