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chapter shall enure one-half thereof to the use of the complainant and one-half 

 thereof to the use of the town where the offence is committed. 



Sec. 5. The foregoing provisions of this chapter shall be considered as form- 

 ing a compact with the state of Connecticut, from which the general assembly 

 will not depart until the legislature of the state of Connecticut shall agree with 

 the general assembly of this state to a repeal thereof, alterations therein, or 

 additions thereto. 



Sec. 6. If any owner of land adjoining Pawcatuck river in this state shall 

 permit any weir, pound, or other obstruction to be erected or continued upon 

 any fiat or bottom of said river, whether done, erected, or continued by him- 

 self, servant, lessee, or any other person, by his privity or consent, such owner 

 shall be liable for any such breach or violation of section two of this chapter 

 in the same manner as though the same had been committed by such owner in 

 person. 



CHAPTER 174. 



Of the 'Inland Fisheries. 



Section 1. The governor shall appoint seven commissioners of inland fish- 

 eries, who shall hold their offices for three years and until their successors are 

 appointed. 



Sec. 2. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries shall introduce, protect, and 

 cultivate fish in the inland waters of the state, and may make all needful regu- 

 lations for the protection of such fish, and shall prosecute for 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 all kinds of shell fish; and for 

 the purpose of so doing may from time to time take, hold, and occupy, to the ex- 

 clusion of all others, in one 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 under lease as a private and several oyster fishery: Provided, 

 that the land so held and occupied at any one time shall not exceed thi'ee 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 take out 

 or otherwise mark the bounds of said land. Said commissioners may make all 



