IO2 AMERICAN 



[CHAP. 289.] 



An Act to regulate Fishing in Merrimack River, and for other 

 purposes. 



Be it enacted, fyc., as follows . 



SECT. 1. No person shall fish with a seine in Merrimack river, 

 nor in any manner take or catch shad, salmon or alewives in said 

 river, until the fifteenth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred 

 and seventy. one, under penalty of the forfeiture of the seine and of 

 five dollars for each shad or alewife, and fifty dollars for each salmon 

 taken : provided, that the fish commissioners shall be allowed from 

 time to time to take such fish as may be required to re-stock the 

 Merrimack or any other rivers. 



SECT. 2. No person shall fish within four hundred yards of any 

 fish-way on Merrimack river, nor trespass within the limits of the 

 same, under a penalty of fifty dollars. 



SECT. 3. The fish commissioners are hereby empowered to cause 

 any tributaries of the Merrimack river to be opened to the passage 

 of shad, salmon, and alewives, by directing the proprietors of dams 

 in such tributaries to build suitable fish-ways over their dams. 



SECT. 4. The mayor and alderman of any city and the selectmen 

 of any town bordering on the Merrimack river shall appoint one or 

 more suitable fish-wardens and fix their compensation, to see to the 

 execution of the provisions of the first and second sections of this 

 act. [Approved May 31, 1867. 



[CHAP. 149.] 



An Act for the re-stocking of Mystic River and its tributaries 

 with Fish. 



Be it enacted, fyc., as follows: 



SECT. 1. The right to take alewives or shad from Mystic river 

 or its tributaries, or from Mystic pond, shall be and hereby is sus- 

 pended for the period of five years next ensuing, and no net, seine, 

 or weir shall be set therein during said period. 



SECT. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this statute shall 

 forfeit one dollar for every alewife or shad so taken. 



SFCT. 3. All prosecutions under this act shall be commenced 

 within thirty days from the time of committing the offence. 



SECT. 4. The several " committees for the preservation of fish " 

 of the towns of Medford, Somerviile, West Cambridge or Winches- 

 ter, may remove and destroy any and all nets, seines or weirs found 

 in said waters during the said period of five years. (Approved 

 April 13th, 1867. 



The following is the Act of New Hampshire, and it has been fol- 

 lowed by another, prohibiting the taking of shad and salmon in the 

 Merrimack : 



