1308 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



and Thomas Paine, for the term of seven years from the date hereof, 

 for and in consideration of the sum of thirty pounds a year, to be 

 paid in current silver money, to be paid at or before the first of May 

 yearly. It is mutually agreed between the Court and the partners, 

 that it shall be improved by our own people, but in case they shall 

 refuse, that then it shall be at the liberty of the partners to admit of 

 any other, put of the Colony, to improve it with them; and the 

 Court appoint Cornett Studson and Mr. Nathaniel Thomas to make 

 leases to the partners, and to receive tke country's money for it, for 

 the country's use, as it is due and payable. 



No. 152. 1684, July 1: Acts and Orders of the General Court of 

 the Colony of New Plymouth. 



This Court taking into their serious consideration the great dam- 

 age that this colony and our neighbours is likely to sustain by the 

 catching of mackerel with nets and seines at Cape Codd, or else 

 where near any shore in this colony, to the great destruction of fish, 

 and to the discouragement of several fishermen, 



This Court doth therefore enact, and be it hereby enacted, by the 

 authority thereof, that no person or persons whatsoever, after the 

 publication hereof, shall catch or draw on shore any mackerel, with 

 net or nets, seine or seines, in any part of this colony; and if any 

 person or persons shall hereafter presume to catch any mackerel by 

 setting or shooling any net or seine, every such person or persons so 

 offending as aforesaid shall forfeit for his or their said offence all 

 such nets or seines as shall be so improved, and all such mackerel as 

 shall be so caught by him or them, and shall also forfeit every such 

 vessel, and all such vessels, or boats, as shall be employed therein, 

 whether catch, sloop, or boat, as shall be employee! in taking or 

 carrying away any such fish, if at any time the person or persons so 

 offending be taken within the government, or the value thereof, the 

 cne moiety to the Colony, and the other moiety to the informer, that 

 shall prosecute the same. And for the better execution of said law. 

 power shall be given by some one or more of the magistrates by war- 

 rant to some fit man to act as a water bailiff to make seizure of any 

 such forfeitures as aforesaid. 



No. 153. 1684, July 4' Acts and Orders of the General Court of 

 the Colony of New Plymouth. 



Mr. William Clarke, of Plymouth, came into the Court and ten- 

 dered, that if this Court would make a law to prohibit the catching 

 of mackerel with seines in any part of this colony, he would and did 

 engage to the Court that he would give and pay unto the Treasurer 

 thirty pound per annum, for seven years, in current New England 



