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dollars for every hundred lobsters so taken or found over the first hundred, and in that proportion 

 for any smaller number. 



" SEC. 91. For the purposes of the two preceding sections, the waters and shores of Province- 

 town shall be deemed to be as follows, namely, beginning at Race Point, one-half mile from the 

 shore, and thence running by said shore to the end of Long Point, which forms the harbor of 

 Provincetown, and from the end of Long Point one-half mile and including the harbor within the 

 town of Provincetown. 



" SEC. 92. Whoever, between the first day of April and the first day of July inclusive, takes 

 more than one hundred pounds per week of lobsters, tautog, bass, or scuppaug in the bays, har- 

 bors, ponds, rivers, or creeks of the waters of Buzzard's Bay, within one mile from the shore and 

 within the jurisdiction of the towns of Sandwich and Wareham, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 

 fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action of tort by the selectmen or any legal voter of Sandwich 

 or Wareham, for the use of the party suing therefor." 



V 



Chapter 98, public statutes. 



The following amendments to sections 81 and 82 of the above laws went into effect March 21, 

 1882. 



" SECTION 1. Section eighty-one of chapter ninety-one of the public statutes is hereby amended 

 to read as follows : 



" SEC. 81. Whoever, during the month of July in any year catches or takes from any of the 

 waters of this Commonwealth any female lobster bearing eggs shall be punished for each offense 

 by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the house 

 of correction for not less than one nor more than three months ; but a person catching or taking 

 any such lobster during said month of July and immediately returning it alive to the waters from 

 which it was taken shall not be subject to such penalty. 



" SEC. 2. Section eighty-two of chapter ninety-one of the public statutes is hereby amended 

 to read as follows : 



" SEC. 82. Whoever, during the month of July in any year, sells or has in his possession with 

 intent to sell, any female lobster bearing <>ggs, taken in this Commonwealth, shall forfeit for each 

 offense a sum of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. 



" SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage." 



Chapter 212, section 1, of the acts of 1884, amends section 84 of the public statutes to read 

 as follows : 



"Whoever sells, or offers for sale or has in his possession a lobster less than ten and one-half 

 inches in length measuring from one extreme of the body extended to the other, exclusive of claws 

 or feelers, shall forfeit ten dollars for every such lobster; and the possession of any lobster not of 

 the required length shall be prima facie evidence to convict." 



Rhode Island. 

 Chapter 147, article XVIII, public statutes of Rhode Island, revision of 1882. 



" SECTION 8. Every person not at the time an inhabitant of this State who shall set or keep 

 or cause to be set or kept, within any of the public waters of the State, any pots or nets for the 

 catching of lobsters, shall forfeit twenty dollars for each offense, one-half thereof to the use of the 

 complainant and one-half thereof to the use of the State. 



" SEC. 9. Every person who shall lift or raise any pot or net set for the catching of lobsters, 

 without the permission of the owner thereof, shall forfeit ten dollars. 



