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AMENDMENTS SINCE THE REVISION OF 1875. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
An Act amending Sections 21 and 22 of Article 1 of Part 1, Chapter IV, 
Title 16, of the General Statutes relating to Fisheries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representutives in General 
Assembly convened : 
_ Section 1. That section twenty-one of article one, of part one, 
of the chapter on fisheries, in the general statutes, be amended by 
inserting the words “or Hast Haven,” after the word ‘ Branford,” 
in said section. 
Sec. 2. That section twenty-two of same act, part, and 
chapter, be amended by adding the following “provided, that this 
section shall not apply to the act of dredging upon any ground in 
the water of East Haven, by the owner thereof, which lies south- 
westerly of a line drawn as follows, viz.: starting from the center 
of the rock .known as ‘the chimneys,’ and running thence north- 
westerly in a straight line to the spindle on the rock known as 
‘Quixes ledge,’ and thence northwesterly in a straight line 
through the center of the rock known as ‘Adam’s Fall,’ to the 
point where it will intersect a straight line drawn from the Light- 
house in Hast Haven to Savin’s rock, so called, in the town of 
Orange.” 
Approved, July 2, 1875, 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
An Act relating to Fisheries for Shell-fish in Tide-waters and Rivers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Section 1. That the designation of all places within the navi- 
gable waters of this state, for the purpose of planting and culti- 
vating oysters, in pursuance of the statute law “relating to fish- 
eries for shell-fish in tide waters and rivers,” shall be valid 
although the committee or selectmen making such designation 
may not have made a written description of such designation and 
inclosure by ranges or otherwise, of the time of such designation ; 
and although the applications for such designation, with the de- 
signations and descriptions of the places designated, may not have 
been recorded as provided by section seventh of said law; and 
although the owners of said places may have lost their evidences 
