hath not passed alreaday it may not pass, according to the present Form; and if it hath passed; that it may be repealed

and altered in such a manner as that the Inhabitants of said Thomaston and said Plantation in their respective Town and Plantation Meetings, or by their respective Committees for that purpose to be chosen, together with the Town of Warren, or their Committee, may have equal Authority in determining the Time, Place, and manner of catching the said Fish; and that all monies, Profits, & Advantages in any Ways arising from said Fishery, may in an equitable Manner be divided and established to each of said Towns and Plantation: Or, at least, that the Inhabitants of said Thomaston & s Plantation of St Georges, may have Liberty of taking and catching so many of said Fish as may be necessary for their own Use and Consumption, without molestation or Obstruction, or paying any such enormous Prices as the Town of Warren may be disposed to set upon them, and your me morialists as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c

David Fales

Jeremiah Tolman

Florence Robinson }

Committee for

Thomaston

Committee for the Plantation

called the lower Town of St George

Affidavit of John McIntyre and William Lermond.

Warren Septemb' 17th 1781

We John McIntyre & William Lermond of Lawful age, Testify & say that we Notified the Selectmen of Thomaston to Shew Cause if any they have Why the prayers of the

petition from the town of Warren Should Not Be Heard on Regulating their fishery in Sa Town

Lincoln Ss Thomaston Sept 17 1781

John McIntyre

William Lermond

there Personally Appeared the Above named John McIntyer and William Lamond and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by them Subscribed Before me Mason Wheaton Just Peace.

Remonstrance of John Dillaway.

To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts held at Boston 16th June 1783

Humbly sheweth John Dillaway as he is representative of the Town of Thomastown in the county of Lincoln

That the Town of Warren which is a town bordering upon the one which your petitioner represents, has without any previous advice given to Thomastown-petitioned to your honors that certain Falls called Georgia's falls -- should be annexed as a priviledge peculiar to said Town of Warren and that said Town should have the exclusive benefit of fishing in said falls notwithstanding, almost time out of mind that benefit has been extended to the inhabitants of all the Towns in said river- which general benefit was first granted by brigadier Waldo & other proprietors of the Eastern lands on both sides said river

As the subject of said Petition of the town of Warren is very important to the neighboring towns especially to Thomastown & as Thomastown has never been notified thereof & is now totally uninformed thereof Your Petitioner in behalf as aforesaid humbly prays your honors that said Petition may

be on your honors table until the next session that so said Thomastown may have time to shew cause why said Petition should not be granted.

John Dillaway

A Bill to Prevent the Destruction of Alewives in the Town of Warren.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty four

An Act for preventing the destruction of alewives in the Town of Warren

Whereas the laws already made against the destruction of Alewives are found insufficient for that purpose within the Town of Warren & great waste is made of them by ill disposed persons to the great damage of the public

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives in General Court assembled & by the authority of the same that no person or persons whom power be allowed from & after the first day of April-next to catch or take any of the fish called alewives in any part of the river St Georges within the town of Warren either with scoop nets or in any other way without first obtaining special license therefor by a vote of the Inhabitants of the said Town legally assembled at their anniversary meeting in the month of March or at any time or place but such as shall be determined upon & appointed at such meeting; and if any person or persons shall presume on any pretence whatever to catch or take any of the said Fish in any manner or at any time or place within the sd Town other than such as shall be assigned by the Inhabitants thereof as aforesaid, each & every person so offending shall for each offence forfeit & pay the sum of

thirty shillings together with all the fish so taken & the instruments used in taking the same

Provided nevertheless that nothing in this act shall extend or be construed to extend to the preventing of the Inhabitants of the plantation called the lower town of St Georges from catching & taking such quantities of the said Fish in the river aforesaid within the sd Town of Warren as may be sufficient for their own internal use & consumption in manner & at the times & places as has heretofore been customary

And be it further Enacted by the authority afores that all fines & forfeitures that may be incurred by any breach of this Act shall be recovered by action on debt in any of the courts of record proper to try the same within the county where such offence shall be committed, one moiety thereof to be appropriated to for the use of the poor of the said Town of Warren; the other moiety to him or them who shall prosecute the same.

In the House of Representatives March 4th 1784

This Bill having had three several Readings passed to be Engrossed

Sent up for concurrence

Tristram Dalton Spk

Memorial and Objection of the Inhabitants of Mount Desert.

Commonwealth Massachusetts

To the Honnorable Senate & House of Representatives the Pitition of the Inhabantants of Mountdesar Humbly Sheweth

that finding a News paper of the tinth of November Last wherein was an order of the Legis-lature of this Commonwealth of October the twentyeth which informed us to our

Great Surprise-that their had been Several Petitions from the Inhabitants of Machias and others to the General Court for Erecting a Court of Common Pleas &c &c to be held at Machias with appeals to the Supreme Judicial Court to be held at Boston and sd officesers to have Jurisdiction to the Eastward of Penobscot River all which was Intirly new to all of us nor can we find any in any of the Plantations neer us that had been aprised their of=but finding by the afore sd order Leve Given and a time Set to obgect against s Petitions we fear it will be two Late to provent their Prosedings But as it is a thing that so newly Consarns us and the Community in General we bege Leve to offer our Obgection against sd Petitions and Imbrace the first opertunity

that a Court at Machias is very Improper as being at one Corner of the sd Jurisdiction & we think that near nine tenths of the Inhabitants Lieth to the westward of Machias and many of them one Hundred miles Distance and we think that traveling Expence & tendence of Court will be much Cheeper at Pownalborough then at Machias

is

that appeals to the Supreme Judicial Court held at Boston very in Convenent for the Inhabitants as it is so fur to travel by Land and but Very fue that have any Convenence to Go by watter and if they had So much Depends on wind and weather which makes it Very Dificult if not Imposable at Sume times for People to attend Court

that as we are not yet Recovered from the Dificulty of a Long and tedeous war whereby all our Lumber trade was Stoped on which our Living much Depended and not yet much Recovered ther from we think our selves not able as yet to Suport the Charges of a County in this Jurisdiction and we think it a little Strang that People that the other Day was Petitioning for help from the Commonwealth should so Sune Petition for Courts to be Erected here in this Jurisdiction