INLAND FISHERIES. 147 



attested copy thereof to be posted up in some public place in said 

 town ; aud if any person or persons other than those to whom said 

 right is sold, or persons employed b}' them, shall take any of the fish 

 called shad aud alewives, within the limits aforesaid, or if any person 

 or persons to whom said right is sold, or those employed by them, 

 shall take any of said fish in any other place or in any other manner 

 than shall be expressed in the conditions of sale, every person so 

 oflfending shall severally forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten dol- 

 lars nor less than four dollars for each and every oflTence, to be recov- 

 ered in an action on the case, to the use of an}' person who may 

 sue for the same, or the town may sue b}' their fish-agents. — [March 



1, 1815. 



[1826, 76.] 



1815. 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 512.] 

 An Act for the regulation of the Fishery, in the Town of Maiden. 



1815, 43. Sect, 1. Be it enacted, That if any person or persons 

 shall take or catch any shad or alewives in an}' river, stream or pond, 

 within the limits of the town of Maiden, in the county of Middlesex, 

 except as hereinafter b}' this act is provided, each person so offending 

 shall forfeit and pay a sum, not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less 

 than ten dollars for each offence, to be recovered in an action of debt, 

 before any court proper to try the same, in the county of Middlesex, 

 one half thereof to the use of him or them who shall sue for the 

 same, and the other half to the use of the said town of Maiden. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of 

 this act, it shall be lawful for any and all the inhabitants of said town 

 of Maiden, to catch shad and alewives within the limits of the said 

 town on every Monday, Wednesday and Frida}', from sunrising on 

 each of the said days to sunrising on each of the succeeding days, 

 from the first day of March to the tenth day of June annuall}', at 

 such place or places only as shall have been previously determined 



by the said town. — [January 27, 1816. 



.[1828, 129.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol. 1, p. 512.] 

 An Act for the regulation of the Fishery in Woburn. 

 1815, 54. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That the act passed on the six- 

 teenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 

 hundred and eightj'-nine, entitled " An Act to prevent the destruction 

 of the fish called shad and alewives in M^'stick River, so called, 

 within the towns of Cambridge, Charlestown and Medford, and for 

 repealing all laws heretofore made for that purpose," shall extend to 

 the town of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex, and to all the 



