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map, 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 
the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries who shall thereupon notify all par- 
ties in interest to file sworn statements of facts and copies of maps as 
claimed by them respectively, and said Commissioners shall thereupon 
appoint a surveyor who shall take such maps and statements and lay 
out and survey the grounds in the various ways claimed, and if any town 
boundary comes into question he shall ascertain and report upon such 
boundary as it appears from the maps and records in the custody of the 
respective town clerks of such towns. Thereupon he shall report his 
doings, accompanied with the maps or copies of maps found by him 
touching the dispute to the Commissioners of Fisheries, who shall there- 
upon summon all parties in interest before them at a time and place to 
be named in the summons, and after a full hearing of said parties, with 
their witnesses and counsel, the Commissioners shall establish the line 
in dispute, and cause the same to be located and marked by ranges and 
buoys; and the lineso established shall be the true dividing line between 
such grounds, unless an appeal is taken to the Superior Court, as pro- 
vided for in section two of this act, and said decision shall there be re- 
versed; and the costs and expenses of such proceedings shall be equally 
divided between adjoining owners, who shall pay the same to the Com- 
missioners upon the filing of their decision, and the same shall be ac- 
counted for and paid to the State Treasurer for the benefit of the State; 
and the cases provided for by this section shall not be deemed included 
under section one of this act. 
Sec. 6. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the pro- 
visions of this act shall be audited by the Comptroller, and paid by the 
Treasurer of the State. 
Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of 
this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved April 26, 1882. 
CHAPTER CXXV. 
An Act providing for the Taxation of Oyster Grounds. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
SECTION 1. All owners of shell-fish grounds lying within the exclu- 
sive jurisdiction of the State shall, on or before the first day of Novem- 
ber, annually, deliver to the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries a state- 
ment under oath specifying the number of lots owned by them, the loca- 
tion and number of acres in each lot, the number of acres in each lot 
cultivated, and the value thereof per acre, the number of acres in eaeh 
