INLAND FISHERIES. 347 



Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 20, 

 1877. 



An Act in addition to an Act for encouraging the Cultivation of Useful Fishes. 



1877, 180. Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs: Sect. 1. In all cases 

 where the commissioners on inland fisheries have leased or shall here- 

 after lease any great ponds in this Commonwealth for the cultivation 

 of useful fishes, the said commissioners may fix the limits of such 

 great ponds, and determine what arms, coves or bays of the same 

 shall be regarded as part of said great ponds ; and the limits of said 

 great ponds, so fixed and determined by said commissioners, and 

 recorded in the registr}- of deeds for the count}- where such ponds lie, 

 shall be taken to be the legal limits of said great ponds for all the 

 purposes of such case. The expense of fixing and recording such 

 limits shall be paid by the lessees. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [Ma\- 4, 

 1877. 



[P. S. 91, § 15.] 



1878. 



[1872, 190.] 



An" Act to amend Chapter one hundred and ninety of the Acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-two, relating to the Alewife and other J'isheries in the Towns of 

 Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater and Halifax. 



1878, 32. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Section three 

 of chapter one hundred and ninet}- of the acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and sevent3'-tw() is hereb}' amended by adding after the word 

 " riow," at the end of said section, the following words: — "And it 

 shall be lawful for said towns to agree upon and take said fisli at one 

 common fishing place for all of said towns, upon either of said rivers 

 or their tributaries, within their limits or upon that portion of the 

 Taunton River within the limits of the town of Bridgewater ; to regu- 

 late the taking of said fish under the direction of said commissioners, 

 and to determine the manner in which the ex[)ense attending such 

 common fishing shall be apportioned between them, and to make all 

 necessary appropriations therefor." 



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

 1878. 



Ax Act concerning Shell Fish on the shores and fiats of Thompson's Island. 

 1878, 78. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Whoever 

 takes any shell fish from the shores or flats of Thom|)son's Island in 

 Boston Harbor without the permit of the managers of the Boston 

 Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, or the chief of the police 

 of the city of Boston, shall for ever\' offence pay a fine of not less 

 than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, aud costs of prosecution ; 



