342 LAWS RELATING TO 



Sect. 4. This act shall take eflfect upon its passage. — [April 6, 



1876. 



[P. S. 91, ^^§ 73-7o.] 



[1838, 19; 1844, 65; 1860, 89; 1863, 117.] 

 An Act in addition to an Act to regulate the Fishery in the Agawam and Half-Wa)' 



Pond Rivers. 



1876, 161. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: §ect. 1. The com- 

 mittee annually chosen b3'*the towns of Plymouth and Wareham to 

 make sale of the privileges of taking the fish called alewives and shad 

 in the Agawam and Half-Way Pond rivers in the county of Plymouth, 

 shall pay to each of the treasurers of said towns one-half part of the 

 whole amount of the money received by them from such sales, and all 

 promissory notes taken for said sales shall be made payable to each of 

 said treasurers in the proportion aforesaid. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 21, 

 1876. 



[1875, 71.] 

 An Act to regulate the Fisheries in Taunton Great River and Nemasket River. 



1876, 208. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No shad or 

 alewives shall be taken in any part of Taunton Great River or Ne- 

 masket River between the hours of twelve o'clock in the night follow- 

 ing Thursda}- of each week and four o'clock on Monday- morning- 

 succeeding, from the first day of March to the tenth day of June of 

 each year, including both of said days. 



Section five of chapter four hundred and one of the acts of the year 

 eighteen himdred and fifty-five, and chapter two hundred and fifty-eight 

 of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sect. 2. Not more than one seine shall be cast, set, swept or used 

 on said rivers, within the same limits or over the same ground and at 

 the same fishing place or location, nor shall any seine be cast, set, 

 swept or used within forty rods of any other seine. Any person vio- 

 lating this section shall pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than 

 two hundred dollars, and whoever violates the provisions of the first 

 section, shall be liable to the penalties and forfeitures provided in said 

 chapter four hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hun- 

 dred and fift^'-five. 



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

 [April 28, 1876. 



