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the violation of such regulations and of the laws of the state concerning 

 inland fisheries. (They may in their discretion, from time to time, make 

 experiments in planting, cultivating, propagating, and developing any and 

 nil kinds of shell-fish ; and for the purpose of so doing may from time to 

 ti>ne take, hold, and occupy, to the exclusion of all others, in om or more 

 parcels, any portions of the shores of the public waters of the state or 

 land within the state covered by tide-water at either high or low tide, not 

 within any harbor line and which is not at the time of such taking tinder 

 lease as a private and several oyster fishery : Provided, that the land so 

 held and occupied at any one time shall not exceed three acres. Said 

 commissioners upon taking such land shall forthwith give public notice 

 thereof by advertisement in some newspaper in the county in which said 

 land is situated, which advertisement shall contain a description of said 

 land : they shall also forthwith notify the commissioners of shell fisheries 

 of such taking and shall transmit to them a description of said land, and 

 shall also stake out or otherwise mark the bounds of said land. Said 

 commissioners may make all needful regulations for the protection of the 

 land so taken and of all animal life and other property within the lines 

 thereof and shall prosecute the violations thereof.) They may co-operate 

 with the fish commissioners of other states, and they shall make an annual 

 report to the general assembly of their doings, with such facts and sug- 

 gestions in relation to the subject for which they were appointed as they 

 may deem proper. Said commissioners, whenever complaint is made by 

 them or either of them for a violation of any regulation made by them as 

 aforesaid, or for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of 

 chapters 171, 172, and 173, shall not be required to enter into recognizance 

 on such complaint or become liable for costs thereon." 



Sec. 2. Section 3 of chapter 174 of the General Laws is hereby amended 

 so as to read as follows : 



"Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a copy of any regulation 

 made under the authority of the preceding section to be filed in the office 

 of the town clerk of any town in which any waters stocked with fish, or 

 land occupied for experiments under the authority of the preceding section 

 and to which such regulations may apply, may be, and shall also cause a 

 copy of such regulations to be advertised in some newspaper published in 

 the same county." 



Sec. 3. Section 4 of chapter 174 of the General Laws is hereby amended 

 so as to read as follows : 



"Sec. 4. Every person who shall violate any of the regulations made 

 by the commissioners of inland fisheries under the authority of the 



