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town of Barnstable, between that part of said river where the mouth 

 of the canal of the Nine Mile Pond Fishing Company opens into the 

 same, and a point fifteen rods above said mouth, shall forfeit and pay 

 a fine of not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. 



Sect. 2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize 

 the taking of alewives bj^ any person between said mouth of said canal 

 and tide water. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [March 21, 

 1879. 



An Act to amend chapter forty-nine of the General Statutes, relating to the Inspection 



and Packing of Fish. 



1879, 171. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Sect. 1. Section 

 thirty-six of chapter forty-nine of the General Statutes is hereb}^ 

 amended by striking out all after the words " in half barrels contain- 

 ing each one hundred pounds " in the ninth and tenth lines and before 

 the words ''every cask" in the thirteenth line, and inserting the fol- 

 lowing words : " or in packages containing each less than one hundred 

 pounds, on which the number of pounds therein shall be plainly and 

 legibly branded." 



Sect. 2. Section forty-seven of said chapter is hereby amended by 

 adding after the words "half barrel" the words "and all packages 

 less than one hundred pounds or more than fifty pounds, one-half 

 cent, and on all packages of fifty pounds and less, one quarter of a 

 cent each." 



Sect. 3. The inspector-general of fish or some one deputy espe- 

 ciall}' thereto authorized by him for that purpose, shall have the right 

 to enter at all reasonable times, upon any wharf, and into any store, 

 warehouse or other place, where the packing of pickled fish is carried 

 on in this state, for the purpose of inspecting, examining and super- 

 vising the packing and inspecting of such fish, and to examine and 

 weigh an}- packages of such fish, for the purpose of ascertaining if the 

 same are fit for exportation, in accordance with the requirements of 

 the law. 



Sect. 4. Sections forty and forty-one of said chapter are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sect. T). This act shall take effect upon its passage. — [April 1, 



1879. 



[P. S. 56, § 25.] 



Resolves concerning the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of Washington. 



1879, Res. 11. Resolved, That justice to the fishermen and to the 



fishing interests of the country requires that articles eighteen and 



twent3'-one of the treaty concluded between the United States and 



the government of Great Britain on the eighth day of May, A. D. 



