106 SHELLFISH COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. [Jan., 
house not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days; 
and on every subsequent conviction by a fine of fifty dollars, and 
by imprisonment in a common jail or workhouse for six months; 
and every prosecution for a first or second offense shall be heard 
or determined by a justice of the peace. 
Sec. 19. If any person shall injure the dams or gates of any 
oyster pond in the daytime he shall forfeit not exceeding seven 
dollars to him who shall sue for the same, or be confined in the 
county jail or workhouse not exceeding thirty days; and if any 
person shall do any such injury in the night season he shall forfeit 
twenty-five dollars to him who shall sue therefor, or be confined 
in the county jail or workhouse not exceeding three months. 
Sec. 20. Any person who shall, between sunset and sunrise, 
take or collect any shells or shell-fish from any place on the east- 
erly side of New Haven harbor, between Fort Hale and Long 
Island Sound, designated for planting or cultivating oysters, or 
from any portion of the navigable waters, so designated, in East 
Haven or Orange, or from any place below high-water mark and 
within two miles of the shores of Branford, shall be fined not 
exceeding one hundred dellars nor less than seven dollars, or im- 
prisoned not exceeding sixty days, or both; and if a fine shall be 
imposed half thereof shall be paid to the informer and half to the 
town where the offense was committed; provided that this section 
shall not apply to the taking of clams off Branford between the 
first day of May and the fifteenth day of October. 
Src. 21. Every person who shall take or collect any shells or 
shell-fish or use spears for taking fish within the boundaries of any 
place designated for planting or cultivating oysters within two 
miles of the shores of Branford without the permission of the 
owner of such place shall be fined not more than one hundred dol- 
lars nor less than seven dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty 
days; and if a fine be imposed half shall be paid to the informer 
and half to the town where the offense is committed. 
Sec. 22. Every person who shall take or collect any shells or 
shell-fish by means of dredges in that portion of the New Haven 
harbor and its adjacent waters, or in the navigable waters of the 
town of Hast Haven, west of a line commencing on the line of 
division between East Haven and Branford, at the mouth of Farm 
river, and running thence southerly to Scotch Cap, and northerly 
of a line running from said Scotch Cap westerly to South West 
Ledge, and from thence westerly to a point in the low-water mark 
