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who shall return to the prevailing party the sum so deposited by him, 
and shall retain the money so deposited by the defeated party as a for- 
feit to pay the expenses of the investigation, which money so retained 
shall be accounted for and paid to the State Treasurer for the benefit of 
the State. 
Sec. 3. All applications, designations, papers and maps pertaining 
to any allotment or designation of shell fishery grounds within the area 
of the exclusive jurisdiction of the State, heretofore made by town offi- 
cers, and all assignments of such grounds or of parts thereof which have 
not been recorded in the office of the Town Clerk or of the Shell-fish 
Commissioners, shall be left by the owner or owners, claimant or claim- 
ants thereof for record, and shall be recorded in the office of the Shell- 
fish Commissioners, or in the office of the Town Clerk of the town 
between whose meridian lines said grounds or any part thereof are 
situated, and they shall be so left within three months after a copy of 
this section shall be posted in the Town Clerk’s office of the town where 
such grounds are situated; and upon failure to leave such evidences of 
title within such time, for record, the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries 
may order the alleged owner or owners, claimant or claimants, to appear 
before them at a time and place in such order named and show cause 
why said grounds should not be deemed and treated as the property of 
the State; and if such parties or any of them fail to appear as ordered, 
or, on appearing, shall refuse to produce any evidences of title which 
they may have or claim to have, or shall refuse to permit the same to be 
recorded, or if they shall fail to produce any evidence of title, or shall 
fail to show any reason for such failure to produce the same, the grounds 
shall be treated, as against such alleged owner or owners, claimant or 
claimants, as undesignated grounds belonging to the State, and said 
Commissioners may thereupon designate the same or any part thereof 
as provided by statute. 
SEC. 4. The same fees shall be paid for recording or copying papers 
and maps in the office of the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries as are 
charged by town clerks for like services; and all fees so paid shall be 
accounted for and paid to the Treasurer of the State for the benefit of 
the State; and one of said Commissioners, or their clerk, shall have 
power to sign and issue subpcenas in all matters of inquiry before them. 
SEC. 5. Sections one and two of chapter seventy of the Public Acts 
of 1879 are hereby repealed, so far as they may apply to shell-fish 
grounds within the exclusive jurisdiction of the State; and section three 
of said chapter is hereby amended, so far as it applies to such grounds, 
so as as to read as follows, viz.: When any designation of shell-fish 
grounds which are wholly or partially within the exclusive jurisdiction of 
the State, contains therein a map thereof or refers therein to such map 
lodged on file in the Town Clerk’s office, and the owner or owners of 
the adjoining grounds, so far as they lie within the exclusive jurisdiction 
of the State, do not agree as to the location of the line fixed by such 
