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such engineers and clerks as may be necessary for the execution of 

 the said duties, and fix their compensation. 



Sec. 4. The Board ol Shellfish Commissioners shall make or cause 

 to be made a survey a'nd map of the area hereinbefore described, 

 whereon shall be shown the location and area of all the natural beds, 

 and of all the grounds which may have been occupied under authority 

 of previous acts for the growing, planting or cultivation of shellfish, 

 and upon the completion of the said survey in and maps of each or 

 any county, the Board of Commissioners of Shellfisheries shall deter- 

 mine the location, area, limits and designation of each and every 

 public ground in the county, and such public grounds are to include 

 the natural beds, together with such additional areas adjacant thereto 

 as may be deemed by the Board of Commissioners as necessary to 

 provide for the natural expansion of the said natural beds; and having 

 decided upon the location, area, limits and designation of the said 

 public grounds, the Board of Commissioners of Shellfisheries shall 

 publish the same for the period of thirty days at the court house door, 

 and ill four other public places in the county wherein the said public 

 grounds are located, and any person or persons objecting to the decis- 

 ion of the Board of Commissioners of Shellfisheries. as published, 

 may file a written protest, stating the ground for his or their objec- 

 tions, within the said thirty days, with the clerk of the Superior Court 

 of the county wherein the said publication is made; upon payment 

 to the said clerk of the sum of twenty-five cents, and at the expiration 

 of the said thirty days, the said clerk of the Superior Court shall for- 

 ward all such written protests to the Board of Shellfish Commis- 

 sioners, and in case such protests are so filed and forwarded, the said 

 Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall upon fifteen days' notice 

 in writing, mailed or personally delivered to all parties in interest, 

 hear and pass upon such protests or objections in the county in which 

 the said public grounds are located ; and the said Board of Commis- 

 sioners of Shellfisheries, having fully informed themselves of the facts 

 in the case, shall make within twenty days from the conclusion of the 

 hearing a decision, which shall be final, and shall be so considered 

 until reversed on appeal to the Superior Court. And at all hearings 

 authorized by this act said Commissioners may, by themselves or 

 their clerk, supoena witnesses and administer oaths, as in court of law. 



Sec. 5. The Board of Commissioners of Shellfisheries shall, upon 

 making the said final decisions as to the location, limits, area and de- 

 signation of the several public grounds in the county, publish the 

 same in the county in which the said public grounds are located, and 

 in two newspapers having a general circulation in the State, and shall 



