96 SHELL-FISH COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. [Jan., 
NOTICE 
Is hereby given, That , a resident of the town of 
, in the County of , and State of Con- 
necticut on the day of AD Oss ; 
at o’clock in the noon, filed his application with the 
undersigned, Clerk of the Commissioners of Shell-Fisheries of the 
state aforesaid, requesting the said commissioners of shell-fisheries, 
in the name and on behalf of the State of Connecticut, pursuant 
to an act, entitled “An Act establishing a State Commission for 
the Designation of Oyster Grounds,” passed by the General Assem- 
bly of Connecticut at its January Session, 1881, to grant to him a 
perpetual franchise for planting and cultivating shell-fish in 
acres of ground, located under the waters of Long Island 
Sound, between the meridian boundary lines of said town of 
, in the county of , and state of Con- 
necticut; and south of the coast line established by the first section 
of said act, and particularly bounded and described as follows, to 
wit: . 
Dated at , this , day of ; 
A.D. 188 
Clerk of the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries 
of Connecticut. 
GRANT OF OysTER ERANCHISE. 
Whereas, resident of the State of Connecticut, 
pursuant to An Act entitled an Act establishing a State Commis- 
sion for the designation of oyster beds, passed by the General 
Assembly at its January session, A.D. 1881, ha made application 
to the Commissioners of Shell-Fisheries of the State of Connecti- 
cut for a grant of a perpetual franchise for planting and cultiva- 
ting shell fish in the grounds hereinafter bounded and described, 
wherein he represent that he ha _ resided in the State of 
Connecticut more than one year next preceding the date of said 
application; that the said grounds 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 said act as natural oyster, clam, or mussel 
beds; that he wish and intend to use said grounds for plant- 
ing and cultivating shell fish, which application is dated the 
day of , A.D. 188  ; and was filed with the clerk of 
said Commissioners on the | day of ep NADE 
