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Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the 
first section of this act, or of the fourteenth section as amended 
by the second section of this act, shall be punished in the same 
manner as provided in section eighteen, of title sixteen, ies 
four, part one, article one of the general statutes. 
Src. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage, and all acts 
inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 
Approved, March 20, 1877. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
An Act in relation to Fisheries. 
Be wt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Section 1. When oysters have been planted or cultivated on 
any ground legally designated and recorded for such purpose, 
and there be any doubt as to which of the adjoining towns has 
jurisdiction of the same, any offence against the provisions of the 
statutes relating to fisheries for shell-fish may be prosecuted in 
either of the three towns nearest to the place where the offence 
is committed. é 
Sec. 2. All designations of grounds in the waters of this 
state for the purpose of planting or cultivating oysters, clams, or 
mussels, heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, shall be good 
and valid, although the applicant therefor may have been a 
married woman or a minor at the time of the application. 
Approved, March 16, 1878. 
CHAPTER LXXXvV. 
An Act to Prevent the Taking of Oysters in the Night Season. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Any person who shall, between sunset and sunrise, take or 
collect any shells or shell-fish from any place in the navigable 
waters in this state, shall forfeit for each offence a sum not 
exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars, one-half 
to him who shall sue therefor and one-half to the town in which 
the offence is committed, or by imprisonment not more than sixty 
days, or both. 
Approved, March 27, 1878. 
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