Litchfield enquirer., 1867-11-14
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 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Assembly convened
 Sec. l. So much of any debt which has accrued by reason of the personal services or labor of the debtor having family which The is liable to sup port, as shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, and all benefits which shall have been allowed by any association of persons i'll this state, towards the support of any member of such association, who, rendered incapable of attending to his usual busi- ness, shall be exempted, and not liable to be taken on any process of foreign attachment or execution; provided, that such execution shall not apply to debts accruing for personal board.
 Sec. 2 This act shall not affect any suit now pending, and all acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
 Sec: 2 This act shall take effect on the first day Of October next.
 Approved, July 2sth, 1se7
 CHAPTER CX.
 An Act in addition to an Act and in alteration of
 '' An Act concerning Ecclesiastical Societies.
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives ill General Assembly convened:
 That so much of the second section of this act to which this is an addition, passed at May ses- sion, 1866, as provides that "every society may, by majority vote of those present, at any lawful meeting declare the termination of the member ship of any member who shall have ceased to at- tend the stated public religious services of said ciety," be and the same is hereby repealed
 Approved, July 26th, 1s67
 CHAPTER CxI.
 An Act in addition to 'sAn Act Encouraging and
 Regulating Fisheries Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rsp- resentatives in General Assembly convened
 Sec. l. No person shall take from the Connecti- cut river any shad ut any other time than between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of June in each year; and no person shall set or draw any net or seine for the purpose of taking fish in said river, at any other time than between the rising of the sun on Monday morning and the setting of the sun on Saturday evening of each week and every person who shall at any time take any shad, or set or draw any net or seine in said river or aid or assist theren shall forfeit the of one hundred dollars to the treasury of the state provided that nothing in this section shall apply tc l taking of fish by order of the commissioners fol the purpose of artificial natural propagation o the same.
 Sec 2. No person shall take from the Connecti, cut river, any salmon, before the 18th day oi March, A. D. 1872, and any person so taking sal mon, shall pay the treasury of the county where such offence is committed, fine of twenty dollars for fish so taken.
 Sec. g. All complaints for violations of this act and of the act to which this is an addition may be made to the superior court by the states attorneys of the several counties where the offences are com mitted, and where the nuisances exist and when ever the superior court is not in session, such states attorneys may make complaint to justice of the peace in any town adjoining the water o1 the place where such offence is committed, and such attorney shall receive the same fees for ser vices as for trials in superior court, which fees shall be taxed as part of the costs of prosecution Sec 4. For the purpose of this act and of all the acts regulating and relating to fisheries, the rv | CTS, streams, coyes, inlets and bays and sounds and all parts thereof within the jurisdiction ofth state- shall be deemed to be entirely in either county or in either town adjoining said waters, a place where any violation of this act was com mitted and the states attorneys, sherifs and dep uty sheriffs of said counties respectively, and th constables and justices of the peace of said town respectively, shall act in relation thereto in tn same manner as though said river was entirely il the county to which said sherifs, deputy sherifs l and states attorneys belong, or ln the town t. which said justices of the peace or constables be long. ....
 Sec. 5. The Governor shall appoint three com missioners who shall hold office for one year, an until their successors are appointed, and who's duties shall be to make complaints Of all violation of the acts relating to fisheries, to the proper in forming officer, to consider the subject of the in troduction, protection and culture of fish in ou waters, to cooperate with fish commissioners C other states and to make report of such facts an Suggestions as may be material to the legislature l Sec 6. Such commissioners shall receive flo their services the sum of three dollars per day an their actual disbursements while employed in suc duties. . | Sec. T. The limitation of the time of taking sha and salmon in the first and second sections of thi act shall not take place unless the legislature o Massachusetts at it's next session shall prescrib the same limitations to the catching of shad ant salmon in said river contained in said sec tions All parts of the act to which this act IS Il addition and inconsistent herewith, are hereby re pealed
 Approved, July 26th, 1867.>