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breach, meaning the breach for the time being into the sea, or within a point 

 on the west side of said breach four rods distant from Joseph ChampHn's fish- 

 house, so called, or within said breach, or within any channel leading to said 

 ponds, or any branch thereof from the sea, or within a quarter of a mile of the 

 entrance of such channel into said ponds or branches of said ponds; and when- 

 ever the fifteenth day of December happens on Sunday this prohibition shall 

 continue to the rising of the sun on the next succeeding day. 



Sec. 20. No weir shall be erected, nor any standing seine or net set, in any 

 part of Charlestown pond, Quonochontaug pond, or Babcock's pond, other- 

 wise know as Brightman's pond, nor across the channel, or in Point Judith's 

 ponds within a c^uarter of a mile from the following places, namely: Alder Point 

 near where Saukatucket river flows into said ponds; Princes narrows, which 

 connects the upper with the lower ponds; Strawberry hill on Great Island; 

 High Point, so-called, on lands of the heirs of Joseph Sherman, and Gooseberry 

 Hole. 



Sec. 21. Xo person shall, between sunset on the first Monday in April and 

 sunrise on the second Monday in June, erect any weir or net or draw any seine 

 or net for the purpose of catching or obstructing the passage of fish in any part 

 of Point Judith pond south of a line drawn from the most northerly point of 

 Strawberry hill on Great Island to the most northerly point of High Point in 

 said pond. 



Sec. 22. Xo person shall erect any weir or set or draw any seine or net for 

 the obstructing, catching, or hauling of fish within any part of said ponds or any 

 branch thereof, at any time between sunset on the fifteenth day of August and 

 sunrise on the fifteenth day of December. 



Sec. 23. X'o seine or net of any sort shall be used at any time within said 

 ponds or any branch thereof, of over one hundred fathoms in length, nor any 

 standing seine or net of over twenty-five fathoms in length. 



Sec. 24. X'o person shall set any standing seine or net, at any time, within 

 forty rods of any place within said ponds or any branch thereof where another 

 person may have already set his standing seine or net, nor shall any person 

 maintain any such standing seine or net in the same place for more than forty- 

 eight hours if any other person desires to occupy the place. 



Sec. 25. Every person violating any provision of the preceding six sections 

 shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and shall 

 also forfeit the boat, seine, net, and other apparatus by him used in such viola- 

 tion, one-half of said fine and forfeiture to the use of the person complaining and 

 one-half thereof to the use of the state. 



Sec. 26. Every person living without the state who shall take any lobsters, 

 tautog, bass, or other fish within the harbors, rivers, or waters of this state, for 



