352 LAWS RELATING TO 



artificial!}' baited hooks and lines, in any of the ponds or streams 

 within the limits of the town of Plj'mouth, shall for each offence for- 

 feit not less than two nor more than twent}' dollars. 



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

 12, 1879. 



An Act for the protection of the Fisheries of Mill River and its Tributaries in the town 



of Essex. 



1879, 119. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. The owners 

 and proprietors of dams on Mill River or Brook, in the town of Essex, 

 are hereby required to erect and maintain fishways over or around 

 said dams, and they shall be subject to all the powers given to the 

 commissioners on inland fisheries under the laws of the Common- 

 wealth. 



Sect. 2. No person shall take, catch, or cause to be taken or 

 caught, b}' any means whatsoever, in said river or its tributaries, or 

 the ponds and connecting streams out of which said river and trib- 

 utaries flow, any of the fish called alewives or shad, nor any land- 

 locked salmon in said ponds and connecting streams, until the first 

 day of Ma}' in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four. 



Sect. 3. The inhabitants of the town of Essex may make all 

 proper regulations concerning said fisheries in said Mill River and its 

 tributaries, within said town of Essex, provided they do not conflict 

 with the general laws relating to inland fisheries. 



Sect. 4. Any person oflfending against any of the provisions of 

 this act shall forfeit for each offence a sum not less than five nor 

 more than thirty dollars, and shall be sul)ject to all further penalties 

 in such cases as is bylaw made and provided. — [March 13, 1879. 



An Act for the protection of the Eel Fisheries in the town of Edgartown. 



1879, 122. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Whoever 

 takes, catches, or destroys any eels in any of the ponds or streams 

 within the town of Edgartown in any other manner than b}' pots, 

 spear, hand net, or hook and line, shall forfeit for every eel so taken, 

 caught or destroyed, not less than one dollar nor more than five dol- 

 lars ; a half of said fine to be paid to the complainant. 



Sect. 2. All fines and penalties for violating this act, with costs, 

 may be recovered, by complaint or action of tort, in any court of com- 

 petent jurisdiction. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 20, 

 1879. 



An Act for the better protection of the Fisheiy of the Nine Mile Pond Fishing Company. 



1879, 137. Be it enacted, etc., as folloios: Sect. 1. Whoever 



takes or catches any alewives in Centreville River, so called, in the 



