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thence one and one-tenth miles to Groton Long Point; thence along the 
coast at high-water mark three-tenths of a mile to the southeastern 
extremity of Groton Long Point; thence five and four-tenths miles to 
Stonington or Windmill Point; and thence two and four-tenths miles to 
Pawcatuck Point, the eastern limit of the State. 
SEC. 2. So much of said chapter one hundred and sixty of the Public 
Acts of 1881 as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved April 26, 1882. 
G€HAPTER CXXIV; 
An Act Pertaining to Shell Fishery Grounds within the Exclusive Juris- 
diction of the State. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened 
SECTION 1. All questions and disputes touching the ownership, 
titles, buoys, boundaries, ranges, extent, or location of any shell fishery 
grounds within the exclusive jurisdiction of the State may be referred 
*to and settled by the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries, who are hereby 
empowered, on petition of any person interested therein, to summon all 
the parties in interest, so far as such parties may be made known 
to them, to appear before them at a time and place in the sum- 
mons named, such summons to be signed by the clerk of said Commis- 
sioners, and served by him or such other person as the Commissioners 
may direct; whereupon, at such time and place named, or any other 
time and place to which the hearing may be from time to time adjourned, 
the party petitioner shall file a sworn statement of the facts as claimed 
by him, to which any interested party may respond by filing a sworn 
counter statement of the facts as claimed by him; and after hearing all 
the parties interested, with their witnesses and counsel, the Commis- 
sioners shall make their decision in writing as soon as convenient there- 
after, which decision shall be recorded in the books of record in their 
office, and the same shall be binding on all the parties in interest so 
summoned or appearing, unless an appeal shall be taken from such 
decision to the Superior Court in and for the county where the town is 
situated, between whose meridian lines any portion of said grounds may 
be, within ten days after such decision shall be filed by said Commis- 
sioners with their clerk aforesaid, and unless such appeal shall be pro- 
secuted to judgment, and said decision reversed by said Superior Court. 
Said appeal may be taken in the same manner as appeals in civil cases 
from justice courts. 
SEC. 2. Every person filing a petition, statement, or counter state- 
ment, as in the foregoing section provided, shall, at the time of such 
filing, deposit ten dollars with the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries, 
