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FORMS. 
APPROVED BY CHIEF JUSTICE PARK. 
APPLICATION FOR A GRANT TO THE 
COMMISSIONERS OF SHELL FISHERIES OF THE STATE OF 
CONNECTICUT. 
The application of , a resident of the Town of 
, in the County of , and State of Connecti- 
cut, respectfully shows: that he has resided in said state more than 
one year next preceding the date of this application; that the 
grounds hereinafter described are undesignated grounds, and are 
not now, and for ten years last passed have not been, natural clam 
or oyster beds; and have not been designated according to the 
provisions of the act hereinafter described as natural oyster, clam 
or mussel beds; that he wishes and intends to use said grounds 
for planting and cultivating shell fish: He therefore respectfully 
requests that said Commissioners, pursuant to an act entitled “An 
Act establishing a State Commission for the Designation of Oyster 
Grounds,” passed by the General Assembly of Connecticut at its 
January Session, 1881, wiil grant to him, in the name and behalf 
of the State of Connecticut, a perpetual franchise for planting and 
cultivating shell fish, in acres of ground, located un- 
der the waters of Long Island Sound, between the meridian 
boundary lines of the town of , in the state aforesaid, 
and south of the coast line established by the first section of the 
act aforesaid, which grounds are more particularly bounded and 
described as follows, to wit: 
Dated at , Connecticut, this day of 
A.D. 188 
Applicant. 
