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Island Sound, on the east shore of said harbor, or as occupy an 
equal distance along the west shore of said harbor, extending 
northerly from Long Island Sound, shall be where the water is at 
least five and one-half feet deep at ordinary low tide; and nothing 
in this chapter shall be so construed as to impair or affect any fish- 
ing privileges in said harbor by means of seines and fish pounds. 
Sec. 7. The selectmen of each town in which places shall have 
been designated in its navigable waters for planting or cultivating 
oysters shall provide a book, to be kept by the town clerk, for 
recording all applications for such places, together with the written 
designation and descriptions of the places designated and set out 
thereon, and all assignments of such places; and he shall record 
each and minute thereon the day when it was received for record 
and the book and page where it was recorded, and make an alpha- 
betical index of all such applications, designations, and assign- 
ments, specifying the names of the applicants and of the assignors 
and assignees, separately; and all attested copies of such applica- 
tions, designations, and assignments, with a certificate that they 
have been recorded, shall be conclusive evidence of such fact. 
Sec. 8. Any owner of such places who shall have lost the evi- 
dences of his title, after filing the same with the town clerk, may 
apply to the committee of the town in which such places are situ- 
ated, and in Hast Haven and Orange to the selectmen, and if he 
shall satisfy them that the same justly belongs to him, and that he 
had obtained and filed such evidences of title with the town clerk, 
and that such evidences have since been lost or destroyed, such 
committee or selectmen may designate and set such places to him 
anew, notwithstanding he may have acquired title to other places, 
though the whole of the places held by him would exceed two 
acres in extent; but no new application and designation shall 
affect the rights of any other person to the places so designated 
and set out or to the oysters thereon; and any person who shall 
fraudulently procure any such place to be designated and set to 
himself, or to any other person, under the provisions of this sec- 
tion, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars, or impris- 
oned not more than six months, or both. 
Src. 9. When there shall be more than thirty designations for 
planting or cultivating oysters, clams, or mussels in the navigable 
waters of any town, its selectmen shall cause a map of such desig- 
nations to be made and deposited in the office of the town clerk; 
