(seq. 16)

Debt for not Exhibiting an Inventory

and that no inventory of the said estate or of any part thereof hath to their day hath been exhibited into the said office nor hath any land been given for the payment of the debt and legacies of said [?] whereby the said Jonathan hath forfeited the sum of £5 a month for his neglecting thereof for each and every month from and after the ____ day of ____ until the ____ day of ____ last being ____ months amounting in the whole to the sum of ____ one moiety thereof to and for the use of the poor or the said town of ____ and the other moitey thereof to the Ptt wherefore and by virtue of the law aforesaid an action hath [?] to the Ptt to demand have and recover the last mentioned form of the said Jonathan for the user aforesaid yet the said [?]. Tho [?] hath not paid the same but unjustly detain it.

Debt for not Making a Passage for Fish

Summoner David Bearlow of ____ to another to William Adams of ____ who sues their action as well for the poor of the said Town of ____ as for [?] in a plea of debt for that the said David on the ____ day of ____ was and ever since hath been the owner [?] of a certain Milldam long before that time erected and made [?] of a certain stream in ____ aforesaid called and known by the name of ____ being a stream where the salmon shad alewives and other fish usually passed into the natural pond above to cast their spawn, but the said David hath never made a sufficient pasageway for the fish to pass up the said stream either thro' or round the said dam from the ____ day of ____ to the ____ day of ____ instant by season whereof the said fish during all the time and season were wholly prevented from passing up the stream aforesaid contrary to an act or law of our Prov. of Massachusseth Bay made in the fifteenth year of the reigh of our late royal grandfather intitled "an act in supplement to an act made to prevent the destruction of fish called alewives and other fish" whereby an action hath accrued to the said William who sues as foresaid.