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CHAPTER XXII. 
An Act concerning Fisheries. 
Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
The oyster-ground committee of the town of New Haven may 
designate, for the purpose of planting and cultivating oysters, any 
ground covered by the waters of Long Island Sound, which lies 
west of the westerly boundary of East Haven and east of a line 
parallel with and five hundred yards west of said line, and the 
selectmen of Orange may make similar designations of ground, 
for the purpose of planting and cultivating oysters in the territory 
covered by the waters of Long Island Sound, lying westerly of 
said tract, five hundred yards in width, and easterly of a line due 
south from Savin Rock; and all designations of oyster ground 
heretofore made by said committee, in the tract first described, or 
by such selectmen in the tract last above described, are hereby 
validated and confirmed. But nothing herein contained shall be 
construed to affect the matter of any boundary line between New 
Haven and Orange, and prosecutions for the violations of the stat- 
utes concerning fisheries, in any part of the whole of such terri- 
tory, may be brought in either New Haven or Orange. 
Approved, March 13, 1878. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
An Act relating to Oyster Lots and Fisheries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Section 1. Section one, part two, chapter six, title eighteen 
(page 355) of the general statutes is hereby amended so as to read 
as follows: 
When the boundaries of lands or of grounds lawfully designa- 
ted for the planting or cultivating oysters, clams, or mussels be- 
tween adjoining proprietors shall have been lost or become uncer- 
tain, and they cannot agree to establish the same, one or more of 
them may bring a petition to the superior court for the county in 
which such lands or a portion of them are situated; and such court, 
as a court of equity, may, upon such petition, order such lost and 
uncertain bounds to be erected and established, and may appoint a 
committee of not more than three disinterested freeholders, who 
shall give notice to all parties interested in said lands or grounds 
