APPENDIX B III 



sufficiently marked out or sufficiently known as such, shall 

 be the absolute property of the grantees or of such owner^ 

 as the case may be, and in all courts of law and equity and 

 elsewhere, and for all purposes, civil, criminal, or other, 

 shall be deemed to be in the actual possession of the 

 grantees and such owner respectively. 



52. All oysters and mussels removed by any person from Property in 

 an oyster or mussel bed within the limits of any such removed^'^'^'' 

 several fishery, and all oysters removed by any person from ^^°J^ several 

 any such private oyster bed, and not either sold in market 



overt or disposed of by or under the authority of the grantees 

 or owner (as the case may be), shall be the absolute pro- 

 perty of the grantees and owner respectively, and in all 

 courts of law and equity and elsewhere, and for all purposes, 

 civil, criminal, or other, the absolute right to the possession 

 thereof shall be deemed to be in the grantees and owner 

 respectively. 



53. It shall not be lawful for any person other than the Protection 

 grantees, their agents, servants, and workmen within the fishery!^^^ 

 limits of any such several fishery, or in any part of the 



space within the same described in this behalf in the Order, 

 or other than the owner of any such private oyster bed, his 

 agents, servants, and workmen, within the limits of such 

 bed, knowingly to do any of the following things : 



To use any implement of fishing except a line and hook 

 or a net adapted solely for catching floating fish, 

 and so used as not to disturb or injure in any 

 manner any oyster or mussel bed, or oysters or 

 mussels, or the oyster or mussel fishery : 

 To dredge for any ballast or other substance, except 

 under a lawful authority for improving the naviga- 

 tion : 

 To deposit any ballast, rubbish, or other substance : 

 To place any implement, apparatus, or thing prejudicial 

 or likely to be prejudicial to any oyster or mussel 

 bed, or oysters or mussels, or to the oyster or 

 mussel fishery, except for a lawful purpose of navi- 

 gation or anchorage : 



