INLAND FISHERIES. I5l 



said right is sold, or persons employed by him or them, shall take any 

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

 if any person or persons to whom said right is sold, or those employed 

 by him or them, shall take any of said fish contrary to the rules and 

 regulations made and established by said agents, which rules and 

 regulations shall be made public at the time and place of sale ; every 

 person so offending shall severally forfeit and pay a sum not exceed- 

 ing twenty dollars nor less than five dollars for each and every 

 offence, to be recovered in an action on the case to the use of an}^ 

 person who ma}' sue for the same, or the agents may sue in the name 

 of the inhabitants of the town. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted^ That it shall be the duty of the 

 town clerk to attend said agents at the time of sale, and to make a 

 fair record of all such rules and regulations as they shall from time to 

 time make and establish, and the conditions of such sale, with the 

 name of such person or persons as ma}' hire the right aforesaid, in a 

 book to be by him kept for that purpose, and to post all such rules and 

 regulations as the agents may direct. 



Sect. 5. Be. it further enacted^ That an act passed on the second 

 day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, entitled 

 " An Act authorizing the inhabitants of Watertown, Weston and 

 Waltham, in the county of Middlesex, to regulate the taking of the 

 fish called shad and alewives, within the limits of said towns," be and 

 the same is hereb}- repealed : provided, nevertheless, that all questions 

 of the constitutional validit}', and all actions now pending, and 

 causes of action that have or may arise under the before described 

 act, shall remain and be the same in any court as they might or 

 would have been had not said act been repealed. — [February 3, 



1816. 



[1826,76.] 



An Act to regulate the Fisheries in the Town of Dennis. 



1815, 83. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the pass- 

 ing of this act, the town of Dennis shall be and hereby is empowered 

 and directed, at their meeting for the choice of town officers in March 

 or April annually, to choose three or more persons, being freeholders 

 in the said town, to see that this act be duly observed ; and each per- 

 son so chosen shall be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties 

 required of him by this act ; and the said committee shall meet 

 together annually on or before the twentieth da}' of April, on such 

 time as they or a majority of them shall appoint, and the major part 

 of them present at such a meeting are hereby authorized and em- 

 powered to order the times, places and manner in which it may be 

 lawful to take any of the fish called herring, ^.lewives, perch and eels 



