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Laws relating to. Shell Fisheries, passed at 
January Session, 1882. 
CHAPTER, CXXJT. 
An Act in amendment of an Act concerning the Fish Commissioners. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
Section one of part ten, chapter one, title three of the general statutes 
(page 17) is hereby amended by inserting the words “‘ with the advice 
and consent of the Senate” after the word “governor” in the first line 
of said section, and by changing “four” to “three” in the second line 
thereof, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Three 
Fish Commissioners shall he appointed by the Governor, with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, each for three years, and until his 
successor is appointed and qualified, who shall make complaint to the 
proper informing officer of all violations of the laws relating to fisheries, 
consider the subject of the introduction, protection, and culture of fish 
in the waters of this State, co-operate with the Fish Commissioners of 
other States, and make an annual report to the General Assembly. 
Approved April 26, 1882. 
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CHAPTER CXXIII: 
An Act Concerning Shell Fisheries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. The boundary line heretofore established by the Com- 
missioners of Shell Fisheries for the purpose of dividing the shell fishery 
grounds in Long Island Sound under the exclusive jurisdiction of the 
State from those under town jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions of 
chapter one hundred and sixty of the Public Acts of 1881, is hereby 
changed, and as so changed is accepted, ratified, established and con- 
firmed by the State as such boundary line, as follows, to wit: commenc- 
ing at Byram Point, the westernmost limit of the State at high-water 
mark, at a rock covered by the outermost clump of cedars; running 
thence in a straight line one and eight-tenths miles across the bays 
and inlets to a big white rock at the extremity of a point designated 
as Horse Neck Point on the U.S. Coast Survey map, and otherwise 
known as Field Point; thence from said white rock at Field Point, in a 
straight line in an easterly direction two and three-tenths miles across 
the waters of the bay and inlets, to a large boulder on a point desig- 
nated on the U.S. Coast Survey map as Greenwich Point, otherwise . 
known as Flat Neck Point; which boulder is situated southerly of the 
