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plot or plots of ground within the State as may be deemed 

 necessary for the constructing, erecting, setting, main- 

 taining, and protecting of signals, beacons, bound stones, 

 posts, or buoys, to be used in designating, locating, 

 surveying, or mapping any shell-fish grounds ; and any 

 persons who shall wilfully injure or remove any such 

 beacon, bound stone, post, or buoy, or any part, appur- 

 tenance, or inclosure thereof, or any buoy, stake, mark, or 

 range of any private or public shell-fish ground, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanour. 



Section 9. All grounds taken up or held under this 

 or previous Acts shall be subject to taxation as real estate, 

 and shall be so considered in the settlement of the estates 

 of deceased or insolvent persons. 



Section 10. The Board of County Commissioners 

 shall have entire control and jurisdiction over all Public 

 Grounds lying within the boundaries of the counties ; shall 

 place and maintain such marks, and shall prescribe and 

 publish at the court-house door, and at four other public 

 places in the county, such rules and regulations as may be 

 necessary for the governance and control of the fisheries 

 on such Public Grounds. 



Section 1 1 . Any person who shall wilfully commit 

 any trespass or injury with any instrument or implement, 

 upon any ground designated under this Act, upon which 

 shell-fish are being raised or cultivated, or shall remove, 

 destroy, or deface any mark or monument set up by the 

 Board of County Commissioners, by virtue of Section 10 

 of this Act, or who shall violate the rules and regulations 

 prescribed by the said Board for the governance and con- 

 trol of the fishery on the Public Grounds, or who shall 

 work on any oyster-ground at night, shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanour. But nothing in the provisions of this or 



