122 SHELL-FISH COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. [Jan., 
doings, and by its decree fix and locate said boundary lines between 
said adjoining proprietors, and certified copies of said report and 
decree shall be recorded in the oyster records of the town in 
which said lands are, or in which said original designations of said 
grounds are recorded, and the lines and bounds so erected and 
established shall be the bounds and lines between said adjoining 
proprietors. 
Sec. 2. The preceding section shall not apply to any designation 
of oyster ground which contains therein a map thereof, or which 
refers therein to such map lodged on file in the town clerk’s office. 
Src. 3. In such cases as described in section two, if the own- 
ers of the adjoining ground do not agree as to the location of the 
line fixed by such maps and records, or if the boundary between 
such owners is a town boundary, and they disagree as to the same, 
one or more of such owners may apply to any judge of the supe- 
rior court of the county in which the town is situated, where 
either of the designations is recorded, and such judge, after giving 
six days’ notice to the parties interested, shall appoint a surveyor, 
who shall take such map or maps and lay out and survey such 
lines according to such maps, and in case of a town boundary 
being in question he shall locate such boundary by maps or records 
in the custody of the town clerks of such towns, of such bounda- 
ries or of perambulations thereof. All the lines which he shall so 
locate shaJl be marked by stakes or buoys, and he may employ 
needed assistance in his proceedings, and shall make report cf all 
his doings to the judge, who shall, if approved, cause the same to 
be recorded in the towns where any of the grounds are situated, 
on the oyster ground records; and if he shall not approve of such 
report he shall appoint another surveyor, who shall proceed in the 
same manner as hereinbefore described. The line so established 
shall thereafter be the true dividing line between such grounds. 
The costs of such proceedings shall be equally divided among the 
adjoining owners. e 
Approved, March 28, 1879. 
CHAPTER LXXXVI. 
An Act Regulating the Dredging for Shell-fish by Steam Power. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened : 
Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to 
use a boat, or any other contrivance propelled by steam, in dredg- 
