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188 ,.as appears by the note placed thereon by said clerk; and 
whereas, a written notice, stating the name and residence’ of 
said applicant , the date of filing the said application, the loca- 
tion, area, and description of the grounds applied for, having been 
posted by said clerk for twenty days in the office of the town clerk 
of the town of within the meridian boundary lines of 
which said grounds are located, for all persons to file objections, 
if any they have, to the granting of the grounds applied for: 
And whereas, no valid objections having been made thereto, and 
the area of said grounds not being, in the opinion of the Commis- 
sioners, of unreasonable extent, the said grounds having been sur- 
veyed, located, and delineated on the map of the Commissioners; 
the actual costs of surveying and mapping said grounds, amount- 
ing to dollars, and the price of said grounds at one 
dollar per acre, amounting to dollars, having been 
paid by said applicant to the Commissioners for the benefit of the 
State of Connecticut. Now, therefore 
Know all men by these presents, That the State of Connecticut, 
acting by and through the Commissioners on shell-fisheries, in con- 
sideration of the premises and especially for the sum last above 
mentioned, duly received from said applicant __, hath given and 
granted, and by these presents doth give and grant unto the said ap- 
pileant and to i legal representatives forever a perpetual fran- 
chise for the planting and cultivation of shell-fish in the 
acres of ground applied for, bounded and described as follows, 
that is to say: 
To have and to hold the same unto the said grantee and 
legal representatives, to the only use and behoof of the said 
grantee and legal representatives forever: 
Provided always, that said grounds have not heretofore been 
designated and are not now, and for ten years last passed, have 
not been natural clam or oyster beds, and have not been desig- 
nated according to the provisions of the said act as natural oyster, 
clam, or mussel beds, and provided further that this grant shall 
not interfere with any established right of fishing, and that said 
grantee shall at once cause the said grounds to be plainly 
marked by stakes, buoys, ranges, or monuments, which stakes, 
buoys, ranges, or monuments, shall be continued by the said 
grantee and legal representatives; and provided further, 
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