1310 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



No. 155. 1692, November 26: Act of the Province of Massachusetts 

 Bay, 1692-3, Cap. 3%. 



An Act for the regulating and encouragement of fishery. 



Upon consideration of great damage and scandal, that hath hap- 

 pened upon the account of pickled fish, although afterwards dried 

 and hardly discoverable, to the great loss of many, and also an ill 

 reputation on this province, and the fishery of it, 



Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and Representa- 

 tives, convened in General Court or Assembly, and it is enacted by 

 the authority of the same, 



[SECT. 1.] That no person or persons whatsoever, after the publi- 

 cation hereof, shall save or salt any sort of fish (that is intended to 

 be dried) in cask or fattes, or any other way than what hath formerly 

 and honestly been practised for the making of dry fish, on penalty 

 of forfeiting all such fish so salted and pickled, whether it be green 

 or dry; the one moiety thereof to the use of the poor of the town 

 where the offence is committed, and the other moiety to the person 

 that shall sue for the same. 



And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 



[SECT. 2.] That henceforth no mackerel shall be caught (except 

 for spending whilst fresh) before the first of July annually; and no 

 person or persons whatsoever, after the publication hereof, shall at 

 any time or place within this province take, kill, or hale ashore any 

 mackerel, with any sort [si of nets or seines whatsoever, on penalty 

 of forfeiting all such mackerel so taken or haled ashore, and also all 

 such nets and seines which were so employed; the one-half thereof 

 to their majesties towards the support of this their government, and 

 the other half to him or them that shall inform and sue for the same. 

 And all justices are hereby empowered, and required to grant their 

 warrants for the seizing or the same and the aforesaid forfeitures, or 

 the receiving of the ifke value in current money of this province. 

 [Passed November 26. 



773 No. 156. 1702, November 21: Act of the Province of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, 1702, Cap. 12. 



An Act for the reviving and re-enacting a clause in the act intituled "An Act 

 for the regulating and emouragement of Fishery," that hath been for some 

 time repealed by the general Assembly. 



Whereas, in the second paragraph of the said act it is entitled " that 

 henceforth no mackerel shall be caught (except for spending whilst 

 fresh) before the first of July annually"; and whereas the said 

 clause, by an act afterwards made and passed by the general assembly, 

 was repealed and made void, which said repeal and the unseasonable 

 catching of mackerel thereupon hath been experienced to be very 

 prejudicial to this province, 



Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor, Council 

 and Representatives [convened] in General Court or Assembly, and 

 it is enacted by the authority of the same, 



