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inspect said river, to cause ttie regulations respecting said fishery to 

 be carried into effect and to prosecute all violations thereof. 



Sect. 3. No persons shall in anj wa}^ take or catch any shad or 

 alewives in said river until the first day of March in the year eighteen 

 hundred and seventv-eioht. 



Sect. 4. Whoever takes from said river any of said fish in viola- 

 tion of the provisions of this •act, or of said regulations, shall forfeit 

 for each fish so taken not more than ten dollars nor less than one 

 dollar, one-half of said penalty to be paid to the complainant and the 

 other half to said town. 



Sect. .5. Chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the 

 jear eighteen hundred and seventeen is hereby repealed. 



Sect. (». This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 10, 

 1877. 



An Act to regulate the Fisheries in the Weweantit River and its Tributaries, and for 

 stocking the same witli Shad and Alewives. 



1877,141. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. No person 

 shall take or catch an}' shad or alewives in the Weweantit River or its 

 tributaries in Plymouth Count}', for a period of five years from the 

 passage of this act, under a penalty of five dollars for each and every 

 shad taken, and fift\^ cents for each and every alewife taken in viola- 

 tion of this act, and forfeiture of all boats, seines, nets or other appa- 

 ratus for taking said fish, used in violation of the provisions of this 

 act : provided, however, that the several fish committees of the towns of 

 Wareham, Rochester and Carver, chosen annuall}-, shall have the right 

 to take or catch said fish in sufficient numbers for the purpose of 

 assisting in the stocking of said river and its ponds and tributaries, 

 and for no other purpose whatever. 



Sect. 2. The provisions of law now in force, b}' which the fish 

 committees of the towns of Wareham, Rochester and Carver are 

 obliged annually in the month of March to give notice to the town 

 clerks and to sell at public vendue the right to take and catch alewives 

 at certain times and at certain places, each 3'ear, in the Weweantit 

 River, are hereby suspended for the period of five years from the 

 passage of this act. 



Sect. 3. Any person or persons, compau}' or corporation who 

 shall cause or permit an}^ saw-dust or other obstruction to the free 

 passage of the said fish, or any drugs, dye-stuffs, acids, alkalies or 

 any other substance destructive of the life of shad or alewives, to be 

 deposited in or flow into said river or its tributaries at an}' time of the 

 year, shall pay a fine of twenty-five dollars for each and every offence 

 so committed. 



