PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS. V 



negligence, sailed through any seine extended iii 

 any of said fisheries, the skipper, captain or other 

 person commanding such vessel, float or boat, shall 

 pay to the owner or occupier of such seine, such 

 damages as shall be ascertained by two respect- 

 able and disinterested men mutually chosen by the 

 parties, or if the parties cannot agree upon per- 

 sons aforesaid, to ascertain the damages, then 

 any Justice of the Peace, on application of 

 either of the parties, shall appoint three disin- 

 terested persons with power to any two of the 

 three to ascertain such damages, and any Justice 

 of the Peace of the county where such ascertain- 

 ment of damages may be made, may enter judg- 

 ment thereon against the captain or person having 

 charge of such vessel, float or boat, if the sum 

 does not exceed one hundred dollars, and issue 

 execution thereon, as on other judgments ; and if 

 the damages exceed one hundred dollars, then the if over one 

 party injured may have an action on said ascer-j'""'^'®'^ ^^^^' 

 tainment of damages in the same manner as if it ' 

 were an award ; and in all cases the damages so 

 ascertained, shall be a lien on such vessel, float or ^''''' 

 boat. 



Sec. 10. No float or other device for fishing 

 shall be anchored or located at any place so as to 

 interfere with any shore Hshery now used as such, 

 or which may hereafter be established, nor shall chor^so^aa^to 

 any seine be hauled from such float or other de- interfere witb 

 vice over the ground usually hauled over by any ^ °^*' '° ^"^^^ 

 shore fishery, and any person violating this sec- 

 tion, shall, for each offence, pay a fine of twenty- 

 five dollars, and for every hour such float or other 

 device shall remain thus anchored or located after 

 notice shall be given by the owner or occupier of 

 such shore fishery requiring him to remove, he 

 shall pay an addional fine of twenty-five dollars. Fine. 



Sec. 11. If any person shall Y\^ilfully and ma- Fine for *b- 



1' • 1 i .1 1 1 41 ^ striictinff haul 



liciously put any stake, log, stone or other ob- of floating 

 struction in the usual haul of any floating battery, battery, 

 he shall pay a fine of twenty dollars. 



