Excerpt from Laws Relating to Inland Fisheries in Massachusetts: 1623-1886 This Court doth therefore order, That whosoever shall treaspas in any of the said kinds of annoyance shall pay the same of forty shillings to the Collonie's use for every such default unto the pson that the county doth appoint to looke after the same; alsoe, this court doth further order, that whosoever of our inhabitants that draw mack-erell on shore there, shall pay to the Collonie's use sixpence p. bar-rell for every barrel] soe taken or the quantity that may amount to a barrell; and for every barrell or the quantitie thereof soe taken by any forraigners in the aforesaid place shalbe payed one shilling and sixpence to the Collonie's use by the pson or psons that soe fish there; and at the beginning of any voyage attempted there, the pson or persons soe doing shall att the entrance an the voyage put in sufficient cecuritie unto the pson appointed by the court under this trust for the payment of the aforesaid same or sumes. (Continued on page 162.) (Page 162.) Whereas wee have formerly seen great inconvenience of taking mackerell att unseasonable times, whereby there encrease is greatly dominished, and that it hath bine proposed to the court of the Massachusetts that some course might be taken for preventing the same, and that they have lately drawne up an order that henceforth noe mackerell shalbee caught, except for spending while fresh, before the first of July annually, on penaltie of the losse of the same, the one halfe to the informer and the other halfe to the use of the Collonie; and this order to take place from the 20th of this instant June. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.