150 LAWS RELATING TO 



more members of either of the committees aforesaid, before any court 

 in the county of Middlesex proper to try the same, to the use of the 

 town where the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action shall live at the 

 commencement thereof; and on the trial of any such action, any 

 member of either of the said committees shall be a competent witness, 

 notwithstanding said action may have been commenced and prose- 

 cuted in the name of such member ; and each of the towns aforesaid 

 shall be holden to pay the members of their said committee for all 

 their services and expenses incurred b}'^ them '.respectively in execut- 

 ing the duties required of them by this act. — [February 2, 1816. 



[1861,157; 1864,234.] 



[1813, 183.] 

 An Act to regulate the Shad and Alewive Fishery in the Town of Watertown. 



1815, 56. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the town of 

 Watertown, b3' their agents, to sell the right, and regulate the times, 

 places and manner of taking the fish called shad and alewives within 

 the limits of said town ; subject in all respects to an act passed on the 

 twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four- 

 teen, entitled, " An Act to prevent the destruction of the fish called 

 shad and alewives in Charles River." And it shall be the duty of the 

 selectmen of said town, as soon as may be after the passing of this 

 act and forever after, in the month of January in each year, to 

 appoint, and the}'^ are hereby empowered to appoint, two persons as 

 agents, whose duty it shall be to carry into execution the purposes of 

 this act : provided, hoivever, that neither of the agents at the time of 

 their appointment shall belong to the board of selectmen. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the agents appointed as 

 aforesaid shall, for and in behalf of the inhabitants of said town, and 

 to their use and benefit, as soon as may be after the first appointment 

 and forever after, in the month of Februar}' in each year, sell the 

 right at public vendue, and regulate the time, places and manner of 

 taking the fish called shad and alewives within the limits of said town, 

 after giving seven days' notice of the time and place of such sale ; and 

 the proceeds arising from such sale said agents sball be held to pay 

 over to the treasurer of the town aforesaid. 



Sect. 3. Be it fui'ther enacted, That said agents shall make and 

 establish such rules and regulations as they may think necessary to 

 promote the interest of the town, and after determining by whom said 

 fish ma}^ be taken they shall cause an attested copy of such rules and 

 regulations, and the name of the person or persons hiring the right 

 to take the fish aforesaid, to be posted up in some public place in said 

 town ; and if any person or persons other than he or they to whom 



