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and sell them at a moderate sum. Provisions for the sale of 

 the privilege were made at town meeting or at such time and 

 under such regulations as the herring committee might decide, 

 and the money accruing therefrom was turned into the town 

 treasury. 



Torching. — Torching of alewives was prohibited in 1819 on 

 the Monument River, and in 1840 on Weymouth Fore River. 



Restocking. — In streams with impassable dams, provision was 

 made for carting a minimum number of mature alewives to the 

 spawning grounds, and in this way a fishery was maintained at 

 Weymouth Back River, Smelt Brook, Jones River, Kingston, 

 and Town Brook, Plymouth. In 1881 the selectmen of Pem- 

 broke were required to deposit alive and in good condition, not 

 less than 10,000 alewives, annually, in the Indian Ponds, the 

 expense to be shared by all the towns on the North River. 



In the following table the dates of legislation on certain im- 

 portant topics have been recorded for the individual streams: — 



