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jail or workhouse not to exceed six months, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment. 
Sec. 3. Prosecutions under this act may be heard [and] deter- 
mined by a justice of the peace, subject to an appeal by the 
accused to the superior court, as in other criminal causes. 
Approved, March 28, 1879. 
CHAPTER LXX. 
An Act in alteration of an Act relating to Oyster Lots and Fisheries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Section 1. That section one, chapter twenty-four, acts of 1878, 
is hereby amended so as to read as follows: When tke boundaries 
of lands or grounds lawfully designated for the planting or culti- 
vation of oysters, clams, or mussels, between adjoining proprietors, 
shall have been lost or become uncertain, or when the committee 
authorized to stake out such lands or grounds have, in the designa- 
tions or descriptions thereof, described such boundaries so as not 
to agree with or correctly locate the boundaries actually fixed by 
them, and such adjoining proprietors can not 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 grounds, 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 ascertain where said committee 
originally fixed the boundaries between said adjoining proprietors, 
and reéstablish and re-locate the same, and may hear parol testi- 
mony for that purpose, and may appoint a committee of not more 
than three disinterested freeholders, who shall give notice to all 
parties interested, as the same shall appear in said lands or grounds, 
to appear before them, and having been duly sworn shall inquire 
into the facts and erect and establish such lost and uncertain 
bounds, and ascertain the true line between said adjoining propri- 
etors, and reéstablish and re-locate the same where said original 
committee marked and placed the same, and may employ a sur: 
veyor to assist them if necessary; and said committee shall report 
the facts they find to be true relating to such matters, and the 
original designations and descriptions of said lands and grounds, 
and of all their doings in the premises to the court; and if said 
court shall find said parties were duly notified it may confirm said 
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