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receive consideration, and be substantiated or refuted, if 

 necessary, by additional surveys and examinations. 



7. That the body controlling the fishery, after being 

 fully satisfied as to all the facts in the case, should come to 

 a final decision, which should be binding upon all persons 

 until reversed by due process before the courts, to which 

 appeals should lie. 



8. The body controlling the fishery, after having 

 determined the positions and areas of the public grounds, 

 should have power to grant perpetual franchises, for the 

 fishery and cultivation of shell-fish on any area not within 

 the boundaries of the Public Grounds. 



9. That the Legislature should determine upon a 

 certain fixed price per acre to be paid, and on its payment 

 the applicant for ground should be entitled to his franchise. 



10. That the body controlling the shell-fishery should 

 furnish each owner of ground with a survey, plot, and 

 description of his lot, for the actual cost of making the 

 same, and should prescribe the place, character, and num- 

 ber of stakes, buoys, or monuments for ranges which the 

 owner should maintain, so that there should be no inter- 

 ference with navigation or the fishery of migratory fishes. 



1 1. That all holders of licenses under the old statute, 

 who had complied with the law, should obtain from the 

 body controlling the fishery franchises for their grounds, 

 and that the surveys and locations of the same should be 

 verified before issuing such franchises. 



12. That a regular tax should be levied and collected 

 on all private grounds, in the same manner as upon other 

 property. 



13. That any private ground which was not improved 

 within five years should revert to the State. 



